The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...

Meet the golden goddess on the Alabama Power Company Headquarters building in Downtown BHAM — the Divinity of Light herself, ...

A marble relief portrait over the gallery doors of the ... “The figure of Moses leads us directly to God and thus to the transcendent dignity of the human being. Moses provides us with a good ...

a finely sculpted marble armchair known as the Throne of Moses was found, sitting against a stone wall. Several Greek inscriptions have been discovered around the ruins of the synagogue. One ...

Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals ... Opening a marble sarcophagus with trembling hands, Andronikos found a small golden coffin, or larnax, with a relief star on ...

Small Praxitelean marble statue of god Dionysus with a wreath of ivy and pine nuts on the head. Traces of color are preserved at the beard and the hair. Credit: Egisto Sani, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 While some ...

Among the most-prized missing objects: the Warka Vase, a sacred limestone piece from Uruk; a marble head of Poseidon ... They worshiped a pantheon of gods including one whose name they took ...