The Greek god of thunder and lightning had Earthly beginnings, and scientists think they finally know where. Ancient Greeks first worshipped the omnipotent Zeus at a remote altar on Mount Lykaion ...

East of the temple, they have found the remains of a great altar to Zeus where athletes and their trainers performed sacrifices and swore their oaths just before competing.

Zeus, the Texas Great Dane who was the world's tallest dog, died after developing pneumonia following a diagnosis with bone cancer.

But the climactic sacrifice was on the morning of the third day at the Great Altar of Zeus, a mound of plastered ashes from previous sacrifices that stood 22 feet tall and 125 feet around.

Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has rejected calls to return the giant altar, a monument to Zeus and Athena, to its place of origin in Turkey.

At Olympia there were hundreds of altars, with the most remarkable being the Great Altar of Zeus - where 100 oxen were sacrificed to the god at each Olympic festival.

Human remains found among burnt offerings at Greek mountain top altar to Zeus A SINISTER discovery at the top of a Greek mountain may corroborate one of the darkest legends of antiquity — a ...

The mountaintop in the Peloponnese region is the earliest known site where Zeus was worshipped, and even without the possible human sacrifice element it was a place of massive slaughter. From at ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. 'In Pergamon, there is a great marble altar, 40 feet high, with remarkable statues - the entirety is surrounded by a Battle of the ...

Zeus as the god of thunder and lightning is often depicted with a lightning bolt in his hand. Also found in the altar trench was a sample of fulgurite or petrified lightning.