Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed a marble statue that may depict Hermes, the Greek messenger god. It was found in an ancient sewer, where it appears to have been buried for some 2,000 years.

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek ... made it easy for the worship of gods to spread abroad ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship ... One statue is a combination of Zeus and Oromasdes (Ahura Mazda), supreme gods of Greek and Persian mythology ...

A steel statue of legendary soprano Maria Callas now permanently graces the Opera Theater of Rome in Italy, immortalizing the ...

Whether called Dionysus (his Greek name ... known as the “twice-born god.” The infant DionysusThe infant Dionysis is portrayed in a fourth-century B.C. statue by Praxiteles from the Temple ...

Walk through the Greek sculpture galleries of most museums and ... And these sculptures were often set in temples to the gods or as memorials. When people saw them, they would have immediately ...

The stone statues once gazed ... “sometimes represented the god Apollo.” Apollo was “one of the most widely revered and influential of all the ancient Greek and Roman gods,” according ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek ... gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she attributes to the Roman philosopher Cicero, about the treatment of a statue ...

Authorities in Mexico have slapped a “closure” order on a 10-foot-tall (3-meter) aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon that was erected in May in the Gulf of Mexico just off the ...

2500-Yr-Old Temple of ‘Greek Goddess of Love’ Discovered in Turkey With the Inscription ‘This Is the Sacred Area' Idol worship has been ... experts unearthed a statue fragment depicting ...