Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...

Empedotimus had a vision of the afterlife where divine justice, reincarnation and the Milky Way shape the soul’s cosmic ...

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked vastly different from ...

“It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess.” Drawing on ancient texts, temple inscriptions, and archaeological evidence, Brøns learned how these sculptures were not just visual ...

A BUILDING in Colchester High Street is being transformed into a multi-purpose complex and will be named after a Roman goddess. The former Marks and Spencer, which has entrances in High Street ...

Sarcophagus Lid with Reclining Couple, second half of 2nd century CE (Roman, Imperial Period, Torlonia Collection, Rome), is featured in “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

She was also one of the last ancient Egyptian deities to still be worshipped. During the Greco-Roman period, Isis was associated with the Greek goddess Aphrodite, and her cult of followers ...

The collection’s first stop is the Art Institute of Chicago. Titled “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture From the Torlonia Collection,” the exhibition will feature 58 sculptures ...

The mummy of a first-century-B.C. individual found in Egypt was not pregnant and did not have cancer, according to a new CT study.

Prior work suggested that during the mid-Middle Paleolithic (80,000 to 130,000 years ago), the southern Levant was home to at least three different groups of Homo: modern humans, Neanderthals and ...

Ancient mikveh dating back to Roman times discovered in Ostia Antica, Italy. (photo credit: The Italian Ministry of Culture) A rare mikveh, a Jewish ritual bath, was found at Ostia Antica ...