Pictures show the statue sporting a head of curly hair, though it clearly deteriorated and lost its features in the centuries since. The bearded male figure depicted in the statue head was "likely ...

While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

Before that, Marcus Terentius Varro had already sought an equivalent for Yahweh, whom he saw as Jupiter Optimus Maximus or even as Caelus, the primitive Roman sky god (in fact, an adaptation of the ...

Notorious for hedonism and sacrilege, the excesses of Elagabalus were too much, even for the Roman Empire ... cult of Elah-Gabal and brought a statue of the god with him on the nearly 2,000 ...

Archaeologists in Italy have uncovered a mysterious stone head, believed to represent an ancient Roman god, during excavations ... a pristine Roman marble statue unearthed in Bulgaria last year ...

The Holy Father vowed to God that , if he were restored to the Roman See, he would institute ... of the Church between two pillars, one with a statue of Mary (Auxilium Christianorum or 'Help ...

Named after the Roman god Jupiter's wife, Juno's job is to observe Jupiter and report back to Earth. Juno completed its first mission in 2021, using onboard instruments like a magnetometer ...

the Roman god of revelry. The citizens of Ephesus bestowed upon the Roman Antony the divine title of “Dionysus the benefactor.” (Learn more about Greek culture that Antony adored.) Antony’s ...

In 1921, the United Kingdom's foreign secretary, Earl Curzon of Kedleston, said of George Washington: “... he was a great Englishman, one of the greatest Englishmen who ever lived; because ...

She just happens to be 12-feet tall. The bronze statue, entitled “Grounded in the Stars,” is one of two art installations by British artist Thomas J Price, whose work is challenging people’s ...

TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP via Getty Images The statue is a part of a series called "Grounded in the Stars" by British figurative artist Thomas J. Price, in an attempt to help deconstruct preconceived ...