An Altar Beyond Olympus for a Deity Predating Zeus
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Archaeologists say they have found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion in Greece.
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Efharisto Greece! Not just for these remarkable and memorable 17 days. Rather, thank you for all of this -- the greatest celebration of humanity -- that was born here in ancient times, abandoned and then reborn here in 1896.
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The new king of Cambodia has been anointed by his father and predecessor, in the first act of his coronation day. Norodom Sihanouk poured holy water from the 800-year-old temples of Angkor Wat over the head of King Norodom Sihamoni.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the new (if temporary) home of âArtemis and the Stag,â below, the 2,000-year-old classical bronze sculpture that sold last year for a record $28.6 million at a Sothebyâs auction in New York. The sculpture, sold by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo to an unidentified private collector for the highest price ever paid for a sculpture or antiquity at auction, will be on view for six months in the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (the central atrium in the new Greek and Roman Galleries).
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VATICAN CITY -- A white marble sarcophagus believed to be the final resting place of St. Paul has been unearthed from beneath the altar of Rome's second-largest basilica after centuries hidden from view, but those curious about its contents will have to wait longer.
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Since a federal court ordered the gray granite Ten Commandments monument removed from an Alabama courthouse last year, it has crossed a sacred, mythical threshold that has ignited the faithful.
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âThe Awakening,â J. Seward Johnson Jr.âs 15-foot-high sculpture of a giant struggling to emerge from the earth, is soon to leave a site near the National Mall that millions of tourists have visited.
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Images from two photo sessions in 1962 make a goddess seem human.
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Archaeologists believe a settlement is linked by a road and perhaps by belief to the mysterious megalithic monument
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Revered as the holiest sanctuary in ancient Greece, Olympia in the western Peloponnese hosted the ancient Olympic Games for more than 1,000 years after they started in 776 B.C.
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Greece's island of Rhodes wants to rebuild the famous Colossus - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  May 25--The first Greek Orthodox Church in Columbus could be a memory by early September.   Built in 1921 at 536 N. Park St., the church hasn't been used in two years.
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ISTANBUL -- Under a bright morning sun near the Aegean Sea coast, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass yesterday outside the ancient stones that some believe were once the home of the Virgin Mary.
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Conduce 'Una notte con Zeus' per raccontare i miti
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A TRADITIONAL Oriental ritual helped to dispel
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ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece  -- Massive fires consuming large areas of southern Greece for a third day raced toward the site of the ancient Olympics on Sunday, engulfing villages and forests as the flames reached one of the most revered sites of antiquity.
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HISTORY: Olympia, in the western Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece, was first inhabited 6,000 years ago and flourished in Mycenaean times. During antiquity, it was covered by olive, pine, plane, and oak trees, among which a shimmering array of temples and public buildings stood. It was the holiest sanctuary in ancient Greece, and hosted the ancient Olympic Games for more ...