A life-size marble statue dressed as Hercules was unearthed in Rome last week during efforts to repair an old and damaged sewer line. Federica Acierno, a 27-year-old archaeologist, was part of the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the "beautiful" head of a marble statue thought to depict an ancient Greco-Roman god. A team led by Natalia Poulou of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki found the ...

The Pillars of Hercules are mentioned in Greek mythology frequently, but what were they? Lets examine the answer to that ...

Archeologists have discovered a well-preserved statue in an ancient sewer in Bulgaria, and it is believed to date back to the 2nd century A.D. The team, lead by Dr. Lyudmil Vagalinski, says the statue ...

Scaffolding in a niche of the Vatican Museums' Round Hall conceal from view the work of restorers who are removing centuries of grime from the largest known bronze statue of the ancient world: the ...

Archaeologists have rescued an extremely rare wooden sculpture of Hercules from a trash pile in Ibiza, Spain, reported Heritage Daily. The discovery was made during construction of a future housing ...

On the sun-drenched coast of Ibiza, surrounded by whitewashed houses and turquoise waters, life moves at its usual rhythm. Yet beneath this modern veneer lies an ancient world quietly waiting to be ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses. Reading time 3 minutes Statues in ancient Greece and Rome looked ...

Police in Greece said Wednesday they were investigating how an ancient Greek statue came to be dumped in a black plastic bag near garbage cans in the northern city of Thessaloniki. The organized crime ...