This statue covered in gold leaf and semiprecious stones may have been used in ancient Mesopotamian sunrise rituals.

It is commonly believed that the Romans copied the Greek pantheon, merely changing the names of the gods. In reality, it wasn ...

According to the legendary epic poem by Homer, the Trojan War was one of the most destructive in Greek history. It involved ...

No, no, it’s fine. I’ll take it. No, yeah, ha ha, this totally rules. Now I will be Hermes, god of messages . . . and thieves. Thank you. While I have you, can I also ask about paid sick ...

Greek God Statue Found Buried in Roman Sewer In addition to the two beasts included on the statue, other labors included retrieving a golden apple from the edge of the world, capturing the multi ...

The infant DionysusThe infant Dionysis is portrayed in a fourth-century B.C. statue by Praxiteles from ... the infant Dionysus to the messenger god, Hermes. The baby is shielded from Hera and ...

In our city, her golden bronze statue, originally cast ... Royalty was given special Hermes attention with the reign of the king that bears the Greek god’s name, and that of his queen, Miss ...

Excavations on the ruins of a fountain in Aspendos—an ancient Greco-Roman city now located in modern-day Turkey—unearthed a marble statue of the god Hermes. “Figures that remained buried for ...

Among them is a statue of Hermes, a Greek god from the Roman Imperial Period. Accompanying this discovery, sculptures of Aphrodite and Eros, as well as fragments believed to be of Artemis and Nemesis, ...

In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright ... stone head of a possible Roman god was found in an ancient rubbish ...

In December, workers installing natural gas pipelines near Athens uncovered a Roman-era statue of Hermes buried upright ... head possibly depicting a Roman god found in an ancient trash dump ...

Archaeologists unexpectedly discovered a well-preserved statue of the Greek messenger god Hermes during excavations in Heraclea Sintica. The archaeologists believe that the statue was discarded in ...