An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost three centuries, resurfaces in Chicago after an acquisition by Halsted A ...

Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was ...

she appears depicted on many ancient coffins. It was thought that these pictures would help protect the resident dead from evil. Four statues of Isis guarded Tutankhamun's own famous shrine.

Much like cats, crocodiles, and lions, the hippopotamus was a revered animal in ancient Egyptian culture, as it represents ...

The figurine dates back to the Ubaid period of ancient Mesopotamia, which predated the Bronze Age. Archaeologists estimate that the artifact was crafted during the 6th millennium BCE, making it ...

Archaeologists in Turkey discovered roughly 2,000 pieces of bronze statues broken apart in what was likely an ancient ...

"For our profession, these are extraordinary finds," said Professor Aybek, head of the excavation at the ancient city.

On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with an unusual object that he said he had found in a ...

and what meaning the figurines held for the Ubaids. Bahra 1 is the subject of the Kuwaiti-Polish Archaeological Mission, a collaboration between the two countries to better understand the ancient ...