An ancient marble statue ... the goddess of war, often wears a helmet and carries a spear and a shield, while Hera is often seen holding a pomegranate in a nod to her role as fertility goddess ...

Authorities say the statue dates back to the Hellenistic period and are investigating how it ended up among garbage. It was worse for wear — no head and no arms.

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

A Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena reemerged in Chicago after almost three centuries after it was acquired from a private collection. The statue from the early 1st century CE has been acquired ...

Hermes wore many hats: protector of livestock, God of fertility, guardian of travelers, thieves and merchants. He was also a psychopomp, a figure who leads souls in their journey to the underworld.

Charlotte Linlin, better known as Big Mom, is evocative of the Greek fertility and harvest goddess Demeter ... s nurturing role as a motherly figure. However, Big Mom’s violent temper and ...

said that oracles once belonged to Nyx and that a statue of her even existed at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Overall, Greek writers viewed Nyx, the ...

Greek authorities said the statue is from the Hellenistic period Greek Police A statue dating back more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek ...

The goddess had to be appeased and celebrated to ensure the fertility of the land, animals, and people. Celtic mythology holds that the chieftains slept with the goddesses in a mating ritual that ...

The police said a man handed over a statue that he said he found in a plastic bag among trash bins. By Christine Hauser On the evening of Jan. 18, a 32-year-old Greek man went to the police with ...

A statue dating back more than 2,000 years was allegedly found in a black bag near garbage bins in a part of the Greek city of Thessaloniki ... that it depicts a goddess, according to Estelle ...