Excavations across the ancient city of Perga revealed five new statue finds from as far back as the second century A.D. The ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

But the Roman statue distinctly depicts the Greek goddess, with her signature helmet and aegis, or sash-like cloak, draped across her chest. “At the time these pieces were carved, the classical ...

Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...

Credit: Saffron Blaze / Wikimedia Commons The sculpture depicts the goddess of love and beauty in an elegant pose, fused at its base with the figure of the god Eros, who is seated on a dolphin.

“Cardea was the Roman goddess of the hinge. Roman doors hung on pivot hinges. Cardea was one of at least four Roman deities who presided over doorways. The name was selected by participants in ...

An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...

Weddell and his fellow British travelers would have referred to the statue’s subject as Minerva, the Roman goddess, rather than Athena, “because they learned Latin in school, not ancient Greek ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...

which covers between 323 B.C. and 30 B.C. The loose drapery on the statue appears to indicate that it depicts a goddess, according to Estelle Strazdins, a classical studies expert at the ...

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Nor do we have any statues of Roman emperors or commanders performing the gesture. The closest that we come to a Roman salute are representations of a palm raised, with elbow bent, in a sign of ...