April 22, Earth Day is celebrated once again as over one billion people help the Earth recover from the ravages of ...

An ancient carved stone head, possibly of a Roman god or philosopher, was uncovered beneath a 5th-century church in Rome, ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city. Researchers say the nearly ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered. The images were painted on the walls of a large ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

I went in search of a Greek island so pretty and uncrowded that even the locals holiday there. Places like Santorini and Mykonos have become popular spots with tourists, but ...

wrote about how the residents of Segesta in Sicily anointed a statue of the huntress goddess Artemis with “precious unguents,” as well as “frankincense and burning perfumes.” The Greek ...

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

There were so many statues in ancient Rome that observers spoke of a second Roman population made of stone and bronze. Living politicians could become marble gods, present in public spectacles and ...

An entire ancient Egyptian settlement from the New Kingdom, also known as the Golden Age of Egypt, surfaced from beneath Greek ruins at ... to erase every possible statue, carving, and other ...