Ross Calvin envisions the logistically complex colossus, which would be around 50% taller than the State of Liberty, as a ...

Orange-clad Cambodian monks and women with red-and-blue sashes representing the national flag bless and welcome a 1-ton ...

Archaeologists in Turkey uncovered a rare bronze bust of the Egyptian goddess Isis at Satala, revealing diverse practices in ...

Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...

Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October ...

Greece is often described as the cradle of Western civilization, has a legacy that no one can ignore. And much of it is visible in its ruins or the places that are so ancient that any traveller will ...

The discovery emerged in the cemetery just north of the Roman walls at a site that once housed the headquarters of Legio XV ...

In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

This small, bronze figurine is the best-known depiction of the Mesopotamian god Pazuzu, who was the inspiration for modern demons featured in "The Exorcist" and "The Simpsons" — but apparently not the ...

Mike Cotter has a lot in common with Thomas Koch, Quincy’s mayor of the last 17 years. Both are city natives and lifelong residents. Their fathers worked together as milkmen. And both were raised in ...

Archaeologists have made a number of historic discoveries while excavating the ancient Greek City of Laodicea, which housed a ...

Hygieia was a prominent figure in both ancient Greek and Roman mythology—she was the daughter of Asclepius, the god of medicine. Hygieia (from whose name we get the word ‘hygiene’) was known as the ...