The other six—Colossus of Rhodes, Lighthouse of Alexandria, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Temple of Artemis, Statue of Zeus at ...

Rico, a 9-year-old prehensile-tailed Brazilian porcupine who has been delighting visitors at the Cincinnati Zoo for years, loves to eat, especially corn on the cob. Warming waters are causing the ...

Olympia is in northwestern Peloponnesos. Its name comes from the sanctuary dedicated to the Olympian Zeus. The sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia. For more than a thousand years, the sanctuary of Zeus ...

A gargantuan gold-and-ivory statue of the god Zeus—some 40 feet high—dazzled the ancient world when it was built in the 5th century B.C. After standing for 8 centuries, it disappeared, and its ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza, the Lighthouse at Alexandria, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of ...

Zeus LVIII and his queen reigned from atop a multi-leveled dais highlighted by an Austrian drape. Maids in the court were Misses Adeline Elise Booth, daughter of Dr. Dennis Joseph Booth Jr. and Ms ...

Unmarried women had their own festival at Olympia every four years. This was called the Heraean Games and was held in honour of Hera, Zeus's wife. Winners were awarded crowns of sacred olive ...

This is a full-sized cast of a group of figures, P and Q, from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, identified as a Centaur and a Lapith youth. On the viewer's right, the young Lapith ...