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Christian music writers Ben Fielding and Chris Tomlin were approached by a historian with a Christian artifact that needed to see new life. The result is a modern-day worship song and documentary.
A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the ...
The 29,000-year-old Venus of Věstonice, the world’s oldest ... how the statue has appeared in literature, film, music, and the arts over the years. Following Venus100, the Dietrichstein Palace will ...
Pompeii Archaeological Park Two nearly life-size statues have been discovered inside a cemetery in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city ... Ceres is the Roman goddess of agriculture, fertility and ...
statues, tools, pottery, jewelry, weapons and even their burials. In fact, it was such a significant civilization that people who study ancient Egyptian history have a special name: Egyptologists.
The statue is believed to be the oldest free-standing full-length sculpture in Australia. Picture: Nikki Davis-Jones The statue was created in the 1830s by stonemason William Herbert and had been ...
In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...
Josef Wegner/Penn Museum/Handout via REUTERS The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and ...
The limestone tomb chamber, dating to about 3,600 years ago, of an unknown ancient Egyptian king, discovered during excavations by Penn Museum and Egyptian archeologists, is seen in Abydos ...
They don’t even know which god was supposed to be crossing the lake. The ancient records don’t give a name, and Shinto is a form of animism that believes in countless gods that lie behind the ...
A three-foot statue of the Hindu deity Vishnu had washed ... the figure would have once held a conch, a symbol of the god’s divine authority which, when blown, was thought to produce the ...
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and ... worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the ...