In Sicily, for instance, a statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, was ritually treated with perfumed oils. On the Greek ...

In his right hand Zeus held a statue of the Greek goddess Nike, the goddess of victory, made from ivory and gold and in his left hand was his sceptre with an eagle on top of it, ...

Archaeologists found an ancient bust of the Greek god Zeus in western Turkey. Here's where it was hiding. Archaeologists Stumbled Upon the Missing Head of a 2,000-Year-Old Zeus Statue ...

ATHENS, Greece - The life-sized marble statues of two ancient Greek goddesses have emerged during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on the island of Crete, archaeologists said Friday.

Two life-sized marble statues of ancient Greek Goddesses have been discovered during excavations of a 5,000-year-old town on Crete, archaeologists said Friday.

He said the 2nd century BC find appeared to have originally stood in a temple of Zeus, head of the ancient Greek gods - whose statue was found in the building's ruins in 2003 and after whom Dion ...

You know Zeus. Greek god of thunder, curly hair, luscious big beard, turns into a swan? You’ve seen his face on statues in parks and on tile mosaics behind the counter in kebab shops.

Records fall far short of the impression made by a sight of the image,” was how Pausanias, a Greek traveller, described the statue of Zeus at Olympia, one of the seven wonders of the ancient ...

A 2 200-year-old statue of the goddess Hera has been found built into the walls of a city under Mount Olympus, the home of Greece's ancient gods, according to archaeologists in Thessaloniki.