Excavating a trench on Mount Lykaion, in an area which ancient Greek historians later called "the ash altar of Zeus," archaeologists found more than 50 drinking vessels, fragments of human and ...

Enraged, Zeus threw over the altar, ... From at least the 16th century BC until just after the time of Alexander the Great, tens of thousands of animals were killed there in the god’s honour.

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 ...

From at least the 16th century B.C. until just after the time of Alexander the Great, tens of thousands of animals were killed there in the god’s honor. Human presence at the site goes back more ...

Those great Panhellenic events began more than 2,700 years ago, first in Olympia and later at Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea. And at Nemea, where the games began in 573 B.C., a Berkeley archaeologist ...

The altar of Zeus at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany, photo by Zander and Labisch, from L’illustrazione Italiana, Year XXIX, No 3, January 19, 1902.

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. The altar was a conical mound ...

Archaeologists have made a sinister discovery at the top of a Greek mountain, which might confirm one of the darkest legends of antiquity. Excavations this summer on Mount Lykaion, once worshipped ...