Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...

Archaeologists Stunned to Find Statue Heads of the ‘Goddess of Beauty’ and the ‘Deity of Wine’ in Turkey Religious faith ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess,” the author of the ... of pigments from long-faded paint on ancient Greek and Roman statues, showing that works long assumed to be white ...

such as "In God we trust," used in political contexts have effectively lost religious connotations. Quincy's planned statues do not fit this description, Smith said. "The problem with this claim ...

The statues of Egyptian gods Amun, Mut, and Khonsu may have been worn as amulets. Despite their hierarchical society, jewelry was for everyone in ancient Egypt. The poorest farmers and the richest ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue of the god Hermes. “Figures that remained buried for ...

Construction is underway on a 180-foot statue of the Virgin Mary in Konotopie, Poland, set to be the tallest of its kind. The statue will stand on a 50-foot crown pedestal near the existing ...

One of the planned statues in Quincy, Massachusetts, would depict St. Florian (250-c. 304), a Roman army commander and ... as leading the angels loyal to God in a war in heaven against Satan ...

The Statue of Liberty in New York City is the tallest statue in the U.S., stretching 151 feet and made to resemble the Roman goddess Libertas, according to news outlet The Collector. Construction ...