According to a release from the Greek police, an unnamed 32-year-old man told police he found a black bag near a group of trash cans that contained a headless and limbless statue. Assuming the ...

Compared to most historical religions, Dowden wrote, the Greek gods were “exceptionally anthropomorphic – they were ‘shaped like people.’” The canonical number of Olympians was 12, but sources ...

The Plaka District has so many cute shops and excellent Greek ... Twelve Gods as a central point of reference for distances. This altar was the heartbeat of the Agora. It was dedicated to the ...

The Olympieion or Columns of the Olympian Zeus. Athens aerial view from Acropolis. Restored historical 70s archival footage on 1972 Greece. Marble statue. Ancient Greek philosopher, lawmaker,poet ...

Athens was the at the heart of the ancient Greek empire ... Devoted to the king of the gods, Zeus, the colossal Temple of Olympian Zeus features towering Corinthian columns, once making it ...

Greek mythology also has no barriers to equality between men and women. Six of the twelve Olympian gods are men and six are women. While it is true that most of the tales feature men as the heroes, ...

A Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena reemerged in Chicago after almost three centuries after it was acquired from a ...

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was ...

One might think that every piece of ancient Greek statuary is on display in a ... The latest find is an ancient marble statue discovered in, of all places, a black trash bag.

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the 80 ...