Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...

Created by Bristol artist Luke Jerram, the sculpture is named Helios after the god who represents the Sun in Greek mythology. The 7-metre (22ft) sculpture follows Jerram's series of astronomical ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

Its legacy endures. For little more than 50 years in the third century B.C., the massive bronze statue of Helios, patron god of Rhodes, towered over the Greek port until it was destroyed by an ...

Imagine a statue so colossal it rivaled the Great Pyramid of Giza, a bronze giant that once stood guard over an ancient ...