Plouton's dual role blends wealth with the inevitable end of everyone, exemplifying that life and death are two sides of the ...

Over the centuries, the movement of large numbers of people meant that gods from a variety of cultures, including Etruscan and Greek, merged together. As a result, Roman gods were a blend of ...

The discovery of a 2000-year-old headless statue from the Hellenistic period has prompted Greek police to investigate.

Archaeologists excavating an ancient Roman sewer last week made a spectacular discovery—a nearly complete marble statue of a Greek god. The statue stands about 6 feet 8 inches tall, and the ...