Created by digital artist Juanjo Ortega G., the digital reconstruction depicts a woman who died in her mid-30s during the ...

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

ANALYSIS: New discoveries in archaeology are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in ...

The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.

It’s often all too difficult to convince myself to go off campus for the sole purpose of doing work. It is, undeniably, far ...

Just like ancient Roman bathhouses, Euphoria’s warm tepidarium ... glasses of warm nettle-infused water at Euphoria’s restaurant, Gaia (goddess of Earth). Once a prominent Greek bank owner, Marina ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Find Statue Heads of the ‘Goddess of Beauty’ and the ‘Deity of Wine’ in Turkey Religious faith reflects a lot about a community's identity. Archaeologists try to trace ...

The great Roman statesman Cicero, for example, wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the huntress goddess Artemis with “precious unguents,” as well as “frankincense ...

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 ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis in Sicily, while the poet Callimachus’ description of the statue of Queen Berenice II of Egypt. The study ...

Profile of the statue ... by both Greek and Roman artists and is a landmark in art history. This is because its artist, Praxiteles, succeeded in capturing the divine female form in a striking blend of ...

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 ...