The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures ... a six-foot-seven-inch statue of the goddess Hestia (or Vesta to Romans), is also one of its most intentionally archaic.

the fountain once contained a statue called "Venus Rising from the Sea," a cast iron statue featuring the Roman goddess Venus rising from the ocean. The foundation believes the statue was one of ...

NICO: <a href=" LAKKIS FARM: <a href=" MY TRAVEL/FOOD BLOG: <a href=" As my once-in-a-lifetime trip through Lebanon continued, I stopped by one of the country’s most iconic landmarks before grabbing a ...

As the goddess ... or the Venus de Milo. That image is dead wrong, according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues ...

Located in a panoramic point of Villa d’Este, the Grotto of Diana, the goddess huntress symbolizing ... of the restoration ...

Beneath the temple’s gold-plated roof, an immense gold-and-ivory statue of the king of the Roman gods presided over ... and the marble Dying Gaul and Capitoline Venus. And while the Temple ...

The iconic statue depicts Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty ... 6 ft 8 in high—and is named after Aphrodite’s Roman name, Venus, and the Greek island of Milos, where it was ...

A life-sized statue has been discovered in Pompeii of an ancient Roman woman thought to have ... a priestess in a cult dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of fertility, agriculture and crops, from ...

Experts believe the use of a Roman statue as fill for a Christian church sheds new light on the Late Antique period from the fourth to six centuries A.D. When digging through the rubble of an ...

New, almost life-size statues discovered in a necropolis in Pompeii. Details about the possible Roman priestess.

The Grotto of Diana at the Villa D'Este outside of Rome will open to visitors in May after being closed for 40 years.

RICHMOND — School officials in one part of the Lone Star State are no fans of the lone nipple on the Virginia state flag, so they have nixed an online lesson that included a picture of the banner.