Thirteen-year-old Yair Whiteson was recently hiking Israel's Mount Carmel with his father when he made an astonishing ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

At the time, many in the Roman Empire worshiped multiple gods at once. When they heard about Christianity ... In addition, the gospels were written in the simple Hellenistic Greek language (Koine ...

the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology. Statue fragments of other deities including Eros, Aphrodite, Artemis and Nemesis have also been discovered at the site. According to a statement ...

In Greek mythology, Hermes is recognized as the god of roads ... With its pedestal, the statue reaches a total height of 1.65 meters and is dated to the Roman Imperial Period (late second century – ...

with the Etruscan god Uni being reshaped into the Roman god Juno. The Etruscan Menvra morphed into the later Roman goddess Minerva. Even the demigod heroes of ancient Greek mythology found their way ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city ... from the Greek for "large painting," the frieze ...

Saturnalia suspended work and business, temporarily “freed” slaves, and eased moral restrictions. Saturn was the Roman god of agriculture, and the festivities honoring him involved decorative masks, ...

Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher who died in 270 B.C., also theorized that there could be other planets like our own, with humans and beasts like us living on them. Ancients Looking Up Into the ...

Known as a megalography—a Greek term for a large-scale painting ... also known as the Roman god Bacchus, entailed. Wine, of course, was central to these festivities. But researchers think ...