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.

For the ancient Greeks, Aphrodite was about so much more than love and beauty. In politics, business and war, she embodied ...

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 ...

An Egyptian sarcophagus shows the sky goddess Nut as being covered in stars ... While this is the clearest known evidence for the ancient Egyptians understanding the Milky Way, others examples ...

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 ...

Depiction of the ancient ... the sky goddess Nut. His findings, published in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, point to a black, wavy line on Nut’s body in certain funerary artwork.