Veteran Diggers Stumble Upon Remarkable Roman Depiction of Winged Goddess of Victory Statue During Excavation Traces of the ...

The relief depicts a woman, identified by archaeologists as the goddess Victoria, or Victory, according to the release. The counterpart to Greek goddess Nike, Victoria personified victory and was ...

New research challenges the long-held belief that asteroid Vesta is a protoplanet. Scientists at Michigan State University ...

(Chariot racing stirred up both love and hate in ancient Rome.) The sea god Neptune, a key deity for an empire circling the Mediterranean, is portrayed spearing a sea monster in a marble statue.

A recent archaeological excavation in Switzerland turned morbid when historians came across a trove of infant burials dating back to Ancient Rome. The excavation began last May in order to make ...

Florence The Cumaean Sibyl loomed large in Roman mythology and was a favorite subject of Italian Renaissance artists including Michelangelo and Raphael. The sibyl lived in the ancient city of ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have unearthed ruins from a hidden ancient palace which housed popes ... glimpse into the dangers faced by the papacy in Rome's medieval times. Archaeologists stumbled upon complex ...

This was a time of turmoil among Rome’s aristocratic families, experts say, indicating that the wall around the ancient basilica may have served as a form of defence around it. “The ...

After its original discovery in 1885, an ancient statue sanctuary in Cyprus was subsequently covered in sand and lost to time yet again. However, a recent archaeological effort rediscovered the ...

Over a century ago, a German archaeologist uncovered a sprawling ancient site in Cyprus, a temple known as the “Sanctuary of Apollo” that was filled with towering statues. However, he reburied the ...