The ancient Greeks considered Dionysus the 12th Olympic god. He was not taken seriously by his father Zeus nor by most of the ...

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Ancient Greek philosopher Apollonius lived in the 1st century CE. He frequently associated with Jesus Christ since his life ...

NAGAOKAKYO, Kyoto Prefecture--An 11-face Kannon Buddhist statue kept at Otokunidera temple ... is only the third known example in Japan of an ancient wooden deity having been carved during a ...

Research has shown that the statues were originally located in a room next to the step pyramid of Djoser, but in later periods of the history of Ancient Egypt they were moved to the tomb of ...

Greece – A 2,000-year-old marble throne dedicated to Potamon, a revered rhetorician of Mytilene, has been spotlighted through a recently uncovered 1908 photograph from the British School at Athens’ ...

We have selected 10 paintings from across art history, focusing on that holiest of holy women—the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ.

The apparent sweetness of this work by John Collier (1850–1934), a Pre-Raphaelite painter, is a wonderful testimony of the two sides of Lilith’s figure.