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 ...

Torso pieces were also found in the same region. Researchers believe they belong to statues of Artemis—goddess of hunting, ...

As a result, Roman gods were a blend of deities, with close similarities to the gods worshipped by the ancient Greeks. In particular, the twelve greatest gods and goddesses in the Roman state ...

The city of Perga was renowned throughout the Roman Empire for its skilled ... None were more striking than a 6.5-foot-tall statue of Aphrodite (the Greek goddess of love and beauty) sitting ...

Archaeologists excavating the ancient ruins of Aspendos in southwestern Türkiye recently uncovered a life-size statue of the ...

One of the sculptures is a striking 2-metre-high statue of the goddess of love ... tall statue of a woman with features from the time of Roman emperor Severus, who ruled from 193AD to 211AD.

The original statue would have been about half life-size and was probably intended to be of Fortuna, the goddess of good fortune, who was often worshipped by soldiers in the Roman army.

A marble statue of Hermes along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities have been unearthed during excavations at the ...

The damaged sculptures dated to the 2nd century and depicted the head of the goddess Athena (the Roman Minerva) and what appeared to be a statue of a griffin clutching the wheel of fate ...

And they always feared the ‘evil eye!’ Statue of the Roman god, Jupiter, from Izmir in present day Turkey. The Romans had many gods and goddesses – they almost had one for every occasion.