A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Although Oldenburg made New York his home for 70 years, no public sculpture by the artist is on permanent view. Lever House ...

Experts on the hunt for the queen's tomb believe that they’ve found a small bust of her—but not everyone agrees ...

A wildfire in southern California reached the grounds of the Getty Villa Museum which houses exquisite exhibits from ancient ...

A 2,300-year-old marble statuette discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, has offered new insights into how dwarves were perceived during the Ptolemaic period (332–150 B.C.). Depicting a muscular, nude dwarf ...

Heraklion From its yacht-decorated Venetian harbour to its lofty walled bastions, Crete’s capital rewards wanderers, and the ...

Europe is a place for art lovers. Whether you are drawn toward modern and contemporary art or prefer classical styles mo ...

With every aspect of Roman life having a specific deity to call upon, it can be tricky to make sense of the ancient pantheon ...

The marble statue had ... worshiped as “the god of the way between the lower and upper world.” This position gradually expanded to include roads in general and then borders, travelers, sailors, and ...

as the sky and thunder god; order and justice; his enemies, thanks to his thunderbolts; and the other Olympians, most of the time. The thing that Zeus couldn’t control was his libido. His mythology is ...

Athena was the daughter of Zeus and Metis and one of the twelve Olympian deities the Greeks believed ruled over the cosmos.

Doc Savage, often called the "Man of Bronze," is a legendary pulp hero who debuted back in 1933 with Doc Savage Magazine #1. He was created by writer Lester Dent and publisher Henry Ralston and ...