The inclusion of these gods was a surprise ... They believe the sculpture was buried there during the Hellenistic period, between the second and third centuries B.C. But information on the ...

530 so-called 'astragali,' dating to Hellenistic period 2,300 years ago, found in southern Israel; inscribed in Greek with names of deities Aphrodite, Eros, Hermes, Hera, and Nike ...

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC surrounded by deities worshipped in the Mesopotamian civilisation.

A gold ring with a red gemstone found in Israel dates to the Hellenistic period and may have been buried in a coming-of-age ritual.

“The pair of gods Hauron and Heracles were considered the divine patrons of Yavne during the Hellenistic period,” explained Prof. Yulia Ustinova from Ben-Gurion University of the ...