Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...

Among the remains, archaeologists working at the site discovered a small bronze statue of a woman relatively ... similar to those worn by Tyche, the Greek goddess of fate who symbolizes fertility ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

“When it comes to Greek statues, there is a sense of holiness and a pureness to convey a sense of nobility,” he said. “The beauty of mythology tattoos lies in the fact that they are timeless.

A 32-year-old Greek man discovered the artifact in ... said that the loosely folded drapery suggests that the statue is of a goddess. Regular women in that period were typically depicted wearing ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in ... stone head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump in England.

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

A statue dating back more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek city of Thessaloniki ... that it depicts a goddess, according to Estelle ...