The mortal sacrifice made by Spartan king Leonidas and his 300 elite troops at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. was described in ... The statue was found at Sparta’s sanctuary of Athena ...

The city of Crotone, a historic jewel of Magna Graecia, is embracing its Greek heritage with the addition of a new, imposing statue of Zeus.

CINCINNATI — A treasured high school memory as taken during a class reunion has been anonymously returned to its "home base." According to a Facebook post from Josh Gerth, a wood carving statue ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) – In the ahupuaʻa of Honolulu, which lies in the moku of Kona here on Oʻahu, stands a symbol of Hawaiian pride. We are speaking of King Kamehameha I Statue. What was ...

Pausanias, the Spartan King Who Defeated the Persians at Plataea and Died Entombed by His Own Fellow Citizens by Jorge Álvarez March 7, 2025 March 7, 2025. ... Sparta placed two bronze statues of ...

Greek woman in a chariot (illustration by William Hamilton, 1791). Credit: Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons. The discovery of a series of inscriptions and bronze statues of female victors in the ...

A search is underway after a treasured high school memory was taken during a class reunion last month. According to a Facebook post from Josh Gerth, a wood carving statue of "the Spartan" was ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

The name "Memnon" resulted from confusion over Greek inscriptions on a similar statue that led 19th-century Egyptologists to think it depicted a mythical Greek king of that name, ...

Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer — a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the ...