The Lady of Kalymnos is an exquisite Greek sculpture dating back to the Hellenistic period, around the 3rd century BC.

with the statue of the deity being made of gold. Regilla was also named priestess of Demeter (the Greek deity assimilated in Rome as Ceres) at the sanctuary of Olympia. This position granted her the ...

Archaeological excavations have also revealed a headless marble statue of Hera, the Greek goddess of women ... An alternate route after the sanctuary of Demeter leads to the sanctuary of Zeus, where a ...

According to Hamilton, he shows up more often in Greek mythology than any other god. As goddess of the harvest, Demeter’s story provided the Greeks with an explanation for why we have seasons. When ...

A 32-year-old Greek man discovered the artifact in ... said that the loosely folded drapery suggests that the statue is of a goddess. Regular women in that period were typically depicted wearing ...

Greek authorities said the statue is from the Hellenistic period Greek Police A statue dating back more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek ...

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 ...

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday. A resident discovered the 80 ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed ... within cults of female deities, like Athena, Demeter, or Artemis. These women organized and ...