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

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 ...

For clues about how this push may play out, look to “The Puritan” — the famous bronze statue by sculptor Augustus ... A powerful, idealized man of God casts his eyes down toward the ground ...

The statue of Mary itself is to be 133.2-feet high, sitting atop a pedestal in the form of a 50-foot-high crown. "Mary is the model of perfect love and obedience to Christ. God preserved Mary from ...

Credit: Romaine / Wikimedia Commons The research is based on a series of classical texts describing how statues of gods and illustrious figures were perfumed. For example, the Roman orator Cicero ...

Roman orator Cicero described how the statue of Artemis in ... The use of perfumes was not merely decorative. In religious rituals, statues of gods and important figures were treated with oils and ...

A marble statue of Hermes from the Roman Imperial Period was found during ... The marble statue depicts Hermes, known in Greek mythology as the messenger of Zeus and the fastest of the gods.

Fragments linked to Artemis, the goddess of hunting and Nemesis ... which is part of our ‘Heritage for the Future’ project, a Hermes statue from the Roman Empire period has been uncovered.” The ...

During the ongoing excavations at Aspendos, which is part of our 'Heritage for the Future' project, a Hermes statue from the Roman Empire period ... the herald of the gods, such as Zeus, and ...