Some were even perfumed, in an attempt to transform them into the lifelike embodiments of gods ... ancient statues in sterile ...

During the first century, the area of modern-day southwest Germany was being slowly taken over and brought into the Roman Empire. The Romans built entire towns, with forts and magnificent manor ...

Archaeologists say the marble coffin is the first of its kind found in the region. The story it depicts is more often seen in mosaics ...

Giovanni Bellini, Feast of the Gods (1514/1529). Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington. The painting shows a gathering of Roman gods and goddesses, tended upon by satyrs and nymphs in a ...

Nearly 60 works from the famed Torlonia Collection are on view in Chicago.

Explore the complex religious life of ancient ... Roman religion for the subjects of empire. Local deities specific to a town, modest shrines, colossal temples like the Pantheon, and the With gods ...

Archaeologists near Bulgaria’s southeastern border with Greece uncovered a nearly 7-foot statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes during ... excavation of an ancient Roman sewer in the abandoned ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have accidentally stumbled across a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in what seems like the most unlikely of places: an sewer in the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica.

A marble statue of the Greek god Hermes was discovered in an ancient Roman sewer in southwestern Bulgaria. The 6-foot-8 statue, a Roman copy of an ancient Greek original, is reportedly in “very ...