The Birth of Venus, a painting by the Italian artist Botticelli, depicts the goddess Venus at the shore after her birth.

Roman gods and goddesses typically symbolized noble qualities. However, with Rome being the first city in world history to ...

A 13-year-old boy hiking with his father near an Israeli quarry unearthed a nearly two-millennia-old ring engraved with the image of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom and battle, officials said.

Early Christian preachers such as the Apostle Paul brought the gospel about Jesus Christ to an empire already crammed full of deities. The citizens of the Roman empire and, within certain limits ...

In the beginning, there was just one, unnamed, muse. The blind bard Homer (a poet born around around 850BC) invoked her with ...

A LOCAL metal detectorist has unearthed a unique Roman coin displaying Emperor Hadrian whilst at Carlisle’s Roman Bathhouse site.

Recent archaeological discoveries are leading to a radical revision by scholars of the intensity, scale and importance of ...

She's been described as a chariot-riding queen of night and the mother of death, deceit and dreams. Who was this ...

A blend by Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs, meanwhile, offers to make you smell like Hecate, the three-faced Greek goddess of ...

The contemporary meets the classical in the pairing of a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting with an ancient Roman statue at ...

Gagosian to present Venus, a pairing of two rarely seen masterpieces from different millennia: Untitled (1982), a significant ...

Hundreds of bare-chested men circle flames on a dark night to the beat of drums in central Venezuela's mountains. They dash ...