Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Newly uncovered Roman lararium in Pompeii reveals vibrant murals preserved for 2,000 years by volcanic ash, showcasing gods, ...

Like fashion’s theatrical messiah, Galliano conjured a court of walking goddesses: towering models encased in metallic peplum ...

Archaeologists discovered that a Hellenistic-era sculpture workshop was built atop an older residential complex on the Greek ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Yves-Bernard Debie, a noted private collector of Roman and Egyptian antiquities and a partner in the Brussels-based law-firm Matthys & Debie, brings a legal perspective to the often opaque world of ...

Or Lev elaborates: “The first answer is representation in art, so we included reliefs ... and animals in the ancient Egyptian religious world (as amulets and manifestations of gods and goddesses). “We ...

Now, while we were pondering how to write up this article – the main issue was how to rank the Norse gods and goddesses properly – we actually ... since he is sometimes represented in ancient art with ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the conclusion ...

In exploring various cultures’ Milky Way mythologies, Graur was struck by ancient Egyptian written sources that referenced ...