A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have ... a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from ...

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

In her right hand, the female figure holds laurel leaves, which Roman priestesses and priests once used to purify spaces.

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 ...

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 ...

Did Easter come from an ancient Greek festival? Scholars have long linked the customs involved in this celebration with pagan festivals ...

Archaeologists have unearthed two almost life-size sculptures during excavations of a tomb in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. The detailed funerary relics include a female figure believed to have ...

They opened a café across B Street and are planning a jazz club on the station’s second floor, above a statue of a Roman goddess aiming an arrow. But there are no scheduled trains. Light spills ...

The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, ...

the goddess of the dawn, there are no known temples dedicated to Nyx in Greece (although the Roman poet Ovid mentioned that there may have been at least two temples dedicated to Eos in antiquity, none ...