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 ...

Vindolanda was first built by the Roman army, before construction had even begun on the 73-mile-long Hadrian’s Wall, to guard ...

The Diolkos stone road is a marvel of engineering from Ancient Greece, allowing ships to travel from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea.

Excavations in Paros, Greece, have uncovered a Hellenistic-era workshop with unfinished marble statues, including Aphrodite ...

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

Archaeologists have discovered the ‘world’s oldest calendar’, dating back 12,000 years. Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic ...

The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

It’s amazing what can be found at the bottom of people’s gardens. The severed marble head of an unknown Roman philosopher, for example, or the tombstone of a former Roman slave. Two such fragments of ...

Rare stone carving depicting Assyrian king surrounded by gods unearthed - Stone engravings of deities from the Assyrian ...