An ancient Greek relief sculpture featuring an ear may seem strange to some, but it was made with the hopes that someone ...

Uranus is undoubtedly the most oddly named planet in our Solar System, but things could have been worse. After all, being the ...

Atop Cividade Hill in northern Portugal, the ancient city of Bracasa Augusta lays in ruin. Today, the site belongs to the modern-day city of Braga, but 2,000 years ago, it was occupied by the Romans ...

At least eight people - including a child - have drowned after a speedboat carrying migrants capsized in the Aegean Sea during a chase with a Greek patrol vessel. The coastguard said the boat's ...

It’s always fun to see a new retelling of Greek myths ... Each god gives you a powerful object you can use to restore the island’s lights, windmills, and statues, delightfully complicated ...

referring to a famous sculpture of the Greek god Hermes. The statue was discovered on Monday while workers dug a ditch to lay pipes to supply natural gas in the Acropolis neighbourhood.

several bronze statues, and an amulet engraved with the phrase “Ra’s justice has risen”. A bronze ring dedicated to the goddess Hathor was unearthed as well. The artefacts helped date the ...

This is a montage of NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope views of our solar system's four giant outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, each shown in enhanced color. The images were taken ...

An unexpected archaeological discovery has brought a glimpse of Athens’ imperial past to light, as a white marble statue was unearthed near the Herodeion, at the junction of Erechtheion and N.

In their conclusion, the researchers once again note that a significant benefit of working on such a complex and collaborative effort like the excavation at Mant cave that discovered the turtle god ...

A Culture Ministry statement said the nude statue resembles ancient representations of Hermes, messenger of the Greek gods, and may have decorated the townhouse of a wealthy Roman-era Athenian. The ...