If you think Goddess Durga is worshipped only in Hinduism, this article might change your perspective! Throughout history, ...

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

The ancient Greek myth of Endymion and Selene is one of the famous love stories that has inspired several artists and writers ...

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 ...

the Greek goddess of love. The statue, which stands seven-and-a-half-feet tall and weighs more than half a ton, had reigned since 1988 as the centerpiece of the Greek and Roman antiquities ...

She was the goddess of fertility and of the fruits of the harvest. She was worshipped throughout the Greek world and remained important to her Greek subjects even in the Roman imperial era.

Archaeologists have uncovered lifesize sculptures of a man and a woman in a newly excavated tomb in Pompeii’s Porta Sarno ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology. Cecilie ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you ...