An ancient Roman sarcophagus found in Israel, featuring the Greek god Dionysus and Hercules, looks like a scene straight out ...

The 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus bears a mythological scene of Dionysus and Heracles in a drinking contest.

Photos show archaeologists carefully excavating the rectangular work, with parts of it covered under layers of dirt. The mosaic depicts Tyche, the Greek goddess ... dates to the Roman Era, which ...

Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a ...

Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures were not ... island," Brøns said in her email. (Cult images refer to objects that are worshipped for representing gods.) Brøns is fond of a quote she ...

Aside from the spirits, worshipped privately at home, the Romans had a large number of public gods. Many gods were believed to have taken part in the founding of Rome. All were consulted and ...

It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess," the author ... immersing herself in the works of Roman writers such as Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. "Perfume and perfumed ...