Greek mythology sparked the Renaissance, transforming art from religious instruction to profound explorations of human ...

Over time, our connection with these deities has evolved from devotion to embodiment, guiding us into connecting with “the ...

Christians celebrate the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Jesus. To mark the occasion, Le Monde charts the birth of the first Christian communities over four stages, from Jerusalem to ...

Maybe you can name every Greek god ever committed to mythology; maybe you just know Nike, goddess of victory, thanks to her line of footwear. Either way, it’s hard not to know a little something ...

The Appian Way Regional Park in Rome recently bid farewell to a "beautiful" stone head from antiquity, uncovered during the excavation of the fifth-century A.D. Basilica of Santo Stefano.

Megiddo mosaic: the earliest known inscription declaring Jesus as God was found beneath an Israeli prison. Credit: Vesafis Tzferris / CC BY-SA 4.0 The earliest known inscription declaring Jesus as God ...

Generations of art historians specializing in Greek and Roman sculptures have completely missed out on what seems to be a central feature of the experience these sculptures were supposed to trigger.

A new study has found that many ancient Greek and Roman statues were likely scented with oils and perfume. ... It was supposed to resemble a real god or goddess,” the study’s author, ...

Bust of Queen Berenike II of Egypt, in the Musee Royal de Mariemont, Belgium. Credit: Romaine / Wikimedia Commons The research is based on a series of classical texts describing how statues of gods ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, which sheds new light on a legal drama that unfolded in Israel nearly 2,000 years ago, has now been published for the first time. Over the ...