Archaeologists unearth Roman-era sarcophagus showing Greek gods in drinking contest - Find hints at a rare regional ...

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists were digging at an excavation site in the village of Rupite close to the border with Greece when they discovered a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in an ancient Roman sewer.

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...