Scott and Cheryl Filler have made many discoveries as they delved into restoring the 61-acre former Lourdes Franciscan Friary ...

One of the world's earliest city cultures, it thrived circa 2500 BCE in cities such as Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. Its sophisticated drainage, uniform weights, and as-yet-unreadable script suggest ...

airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C., Greek sculptors began imitating the world around them, and glorifying the sensual human form. Even now, ancient Greek ...

The research team was surprised by the variety of obsidian types found in the ancient capital, which surpasses that found at other sites in Mesoamerica. The discovery also sheds light on how the Aztec ...

Artificial eyes have also been found in Aztec and Inca mummies ... are mentioned. In ancient Greece statues were often provided with artificial eyes, Pheidias's statue of Athena being a celebrated ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

New study claims Ancient Greek and Roman statues were perfumed. © Image by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin FRCP(Glasg), CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses ...

DELOS, GREECE—Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their ...

Mexico’s Maya and Aztec pyramids deserve a spot high on your travel list. These were once holy spaces for ancient civilizations ... by a colonnade and topped by imposing, 13-foot-tall statues of ...

The ancient Maya and Aztecs had detailed calendars that celebrated ... celebrating New Year’s Eve at various times with unique traditions. The Aztec and Maya calendars shared similarities with today’s ...

Ancient Egyptians worshipped a god named Sobek, often depicted with an alligator head on a human body. Pre-Columbian and Meso-American cultures worshipped Quetzalcoatl (Aztec) and K’uk ... s ...

From the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilisations to the colonial period and modern ... Victory statue holding a laurel crown and broken chains. Surrounding the base are statues of key independence ...