While this winter’s premier auctions for Old Master works at Christie’s and Sotheby’s in New York yielded better results year ...

When Alcmene gave birth (by Zeus) to Hercules, Hera sent two snakes to kill ... Artemis, Apollo’s twin sister, was goddess of the hunt. In paintings and sculpture, she’s almost always depicted with a ...

Take a look at what’s in store for guests who cruise aboard the Disney Destiny, an exciting new addition to the Disney Cruise ...

And in room 108 stands a 1,900-year-old statue of Hercules, a real alpha-male figure ... an eerie limestone statue of a Cypriot fertility goddess from around 3,000 BC, her six toes implying ...

A Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena reemerged in Chicago after almost three ... Athena frequently aided Greek heroes, including Odysseus, Perseus and Heracles, offering them guidance, ...

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

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 ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...

A statue of a goddess that went missing from a visitor garden in the 1970s has finally been replaced. The Diana of Gabii replica was created in the early 19th Century for the listed Swiss Garden ...

which covers between 323 B.C. and 30 B.C. The loose drapery on the statue appears to indicate that it depicts a goddess, according to Estelle Strazdins, a classical studies expert at the ...

Bert Smith, a professor of classical archaeology at Oxford University and at Bilkent University in Turkey, said that the statue appeared to be a small-scale figure of a goddess. “The small size ...