The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

Long before temples echoed with the names of Shiva and Vishnu, long before the Puranas told their grand cosmic stories, the ...

The most beautiful ancient Greek myth is the creation of the Aegean islands, and  particularly of Delos and the Cyclades.

One striking treasure from the collection, known ... images of gods and goddesses are somewhere in between, continuing to serve a representational purpose (all heavily restored) yet no longer ...

One striking treasure from the collection, known as the Maiden of Vulci ... while funerary sculpture and images of gods and goddesses are somewhere in between, continuing to serve a ...

What is the meaning of the witdrwal in ban Slideshows ...

There’s nowhere quite like Athens. The mix of ancient ruins and modern city life is pretty surreal, and the juxtaposition of a 2500-year-old temple with a corner restaurant serving authentic local ...

Easily recognizable as the elephantdeity riding a mouse Ganesha is arguably he most popular Hindu God and one of the commonest mnemonics for anything associated with Hinduism The son of Shiva and Parv ...

One of the oldest deities in Norse mythology, Týr was the god of war and ... powerful hammer, known as the Mjölnir, was believed to have the strength to crush mountains and slay enormous giants.

He is then known as the one-armed god. During the prophetic battle of Ragnarök, Týr and Garm, the guardian dog of the world of the dead, will kill each other. Freyja is a major goddess in Germanic and ...

They led a largely peaceful co-existence, the Greeks focusing on the eastern and central Mediterranean and the Carthaginians - also known ... four gods stand out: Melqart, the god of the sea, the ...

Most people picture the time of dinosaurs as a steamy, tropical world. But during the Late Cretaceous period, northern Alaska ...