ATHENS, Greece – The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday. The works, ...

Hiereiai (singular: hiereia) was the title of the female priesthood or priestesses in ancient Greece. According to the ...

Egyptian archaeologists unearthed the remains of an ancient Greek temple dedicated to Egyptian cat goddess Bastet in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, the antiquities department said Tuesday. The ...

MANITOU SPRINGS — Fifteen Hebes have staked out spots along Manitou Avenue, dressed in their glitzy, garish and psychedelic best. Hebe (pronounced HEE-bee) is the Greek mythology goddess of eternal ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States on Friday returned to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates, found to have been illicitly removed from the ...

This is the first photograph of the magnificent ancient Greek statue "The Calf Bearer" when it was discovered on the ...

The heads belong to statues previously discovered in the ancient city. Aizanoi Excavation Archaeologists working in the ancient city of Aizanoi, in what’s now western Turkey, have found the remains of ...

Two marble statues representing Aphrodite/Venus, the Greco-Roman goddess of love, were found recently at Petra, an ancient desert city in Jordan. The statues, which date to the second century A.D., ...

Unlike its larger, postcard-perfect neighbors in the Aegean Sea, Keros is a tiny rocky dump inhabited by a single goatherd. But the barren islet was of major importance to the mysterious Cycladic ...

After a few weeks of teasing, Lizzo finally released her newest single and music video, “Rumors feat. Cardi B,” and in it, the musician pays homage to the Classical period. The aesthetics of the video ...