Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Vesta, which is named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth (more about that in a minute), came about as a result of the June 2023 closure of 12-year-old Vintage 1891. "From the get-go ...

Several of these texts mentioned anointing statues of Greek and Roman deities—including one depicting Artemis, the Greek goddess of wild animals, in Sicily. Statues of rulers, such as Egypt’s ...

In Sicily, for instance, a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was ritually treated with perfumed oils. On the Greek island of Delos, inscriptions reveal that statues of Artemis and Hera ...

This changed around the fifth century BC, when the greatest Greek sculptors gave her a recognizable identity. Many of these statues dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite have become timeless icons, ...

PARIS-France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the United States no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French Euro-deputy said on March 16.

Some of the stunning figurines that were recently ... strengthens the evidence for the goddess’s worship at this site.” The archaeological site of Amphipolis. Credit: AMNA Amphipolis was an important ...