Archaeologists in Montaione, Florence, Italy, have discovered a rare ancient statue of Hercules, dating back to the 3rd or ...

Police in Thessaloniki, the second-largest Greek city after Athens, said a 32-year-old man handed the statue over to authorities after allegedly finding it Saturday evening. The white marble ...

The name Iphigenia has been synonymous with ancient Greek tragedy and mythology, as well as the concept of sacrifice, for millennia.

It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that Turkish soldiers removed 520 blocks of marble from the ...

Also lacking arms, it shows a figure wearing robes whose folds ... uncovered a well-preserved 2nd- or 3rd-century marble head of the Greek god Apollo during excavations in Philippi, in northwest ...

By Christine Hauser On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went ... to be a small-scale figure of a goddess. “The small size is typical for such marble votives set up to divinities ...

Authorities in Greece are investigating after a 2,000-year-old marble statue was discovered wrapped in a trash bag and discarded among garbage bins this week. Police in Thessaloniki, the second ...