According to medieval sources, the Norse gods were actually real people who were descended from King Priam of Troy.

Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

When New York-based jeweller Sarah Ysabel Narici was designing her take on a hoop earring for her brand Dyne, she looked to ancient Rome and Greece. “Myths about power, transformation, human desires, ...

Egyptian archaeologists recently uncovered a hidden harbor at an ancient temple connected to Cleopatra VII – an unexpected find for historians.

Myth and Marble,” an exhibition of the Torlonia Collection at the Kimbell Art Museum, has been thousands of years in the ...

Thousands of years before Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert got under President Trump's skin, ancient Greek and Roman poets ...

The marble sculpture, discovered at Chersonesos Taurica in Crimea in 2003, has been identified as a woman named Laodice ...

The Sun played a powerful role in the spiritual life of the ancient world from the Greek titan Helios and the Roman god Sol to the mystery cult of Mithras and the Syrian deity Elagabal Over time Sol I ...

A bombing delay enabled rescue of some objects, but archaeologists fear the wider loss of antiquities from the many cultures ...

Siren — In Greek mythology, a siren is a half-woman, half-bird creature that lures sailors to their watery deaths by way of ...

Ancient Greek treasures, dated from the Kingdom of Pontus, are displayed in a new museum in the city of Samsun, Turkey.