The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

He was channeling Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and festivity, with a song about “the absurdity of violence between human ...

For the Chinese today, it is a symbol of strength, an emblem of fortitude ... fabric specimens and silverware adorned with grapevines and the image of the Greek wine god Dionysus, for example. The ...

Today, major archaeological finds from the Hexi region fill the galleries of the provincial museum, including a wooden spotted dove that once adorned a cane, a symbol of privilege reserved by the ...

There are also many miniature wooden farm animals and tools once used as funerary objects — evidence of the thriving agriculture and livestock farming in the corridor's oasis towns. One of these towns ...

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Marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo from the 2nd century AD. Credit: Reuters. For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of ...

Depiction of Jupiter from Roman city of Herculaneum. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA 4.0 Modern sources often speak of Greco-Roman mythology. The reason for this expression is that both Greek and ...