One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Piazza San Gaetano, the heart of the ancient agora. The Dioscuri, like ghosts, watch from afar what remains of their ...

Limber up and eat some pasta, because we're about to test you with a bit of Boston Marathon trivia for every mile of the run.

Workers in Greece ... who two years after Tempi we see that they continue this destructive policy with absolutely no accountability taken. “And this is reflected in the reactions of the people ...

Image In Vezzoli’s studio, from left, a Solitaria console by Ettore Sottsass; a reproduction of Bertel Thorvaldsen’s 1806 sculpture of Hebe, the Greek goddess of youth; and a set of shelves ...

High in the rugged cliffs of Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley, two colossal statues once gazed out over a land crisscrossed by ...

Key events in the life of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who became Pope Francis and died on Monday:Dec. 17, 1936: Jorge Mario ...

Much of what we know about individual Roman emperors comes from what they chose to build. In the 1st century CE, Nero was ...

Ancient Greek Statue of Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Milos, Louvre, Paris. Credit: Bradley N Weber/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 2.0 It was transported to France, presented to King Louis XVIII, and ...

Statue of Greek God Zeus. Credit: flickr / Richard Mortel CC BY 2.0 You’d be wrong to think the ancient Greek ... instantly setting them apart from the people who worshipped, feared, and sometimes, ...

Second, only to the Acropolis in Athens, the ancient site of Delphi is one of the most visited sites in all of Greece. It was at Delphi where two eagles sent by Zeus ... seat of the fabled oracle of ...