ATHENS, Greece – The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday. The works, ...

View post: Keter's 71-Gallon Waterproof Deck Box That Has 'Survived Snowstorms' Is Now Under $70 Archaeologists discovered a 2,100-year-old goddess Hygieia statue head in Laodikeia, Turkey. Finds ...

An excavation within Laodicea uncovered a 2,100-year-old statue head of the goddess Hygieia. Revered as the goddess of health and cleanliness, statues of Hygieia were often located at key healing ...

The rare, 2,000-year-old marble "Persephone" was handed to the Libyan Embassy in London on April 13. (all images courtesy of the British Museum) A 2,000-year-old statue of a Greek goddess looted in ...

Archaeologists excavating at the ancient city of Aspendos, 25 miles east of Antalya on the Turkish coast, have unearthed an incredible marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States on Friday returned to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates, found to have been illicitly removed from the ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. "A white marble statue was ...

Walk into any museum and you'll see them. Those ancient statues with generous hips, full breasts, and rounded bellies.For centuries, these figures puzzled historians who couldn't understand why early ...

The statue was discovered in the ancient port city of Kelenderis, now known as Aydincik, experts said. Batman University More than 2,000 years ago, the city of Kelenderis was a thriving port on the ...