Archaeologists excavating a sewer system from the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica in Bulgaria have just uncovered a ...

Archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Perge, Turkey, have discovered five Roman statues, including Aphrodite and Eros.

Credit: Saffron Blaze / Wikimedia Commons The sculpture depicts the goddess of love and beauty in an elegant pose, fused at its base with the figure of the god Eros, who is seated on a dolphin.

Excavations in the ancient city of Perge have led to the discovery of five statues from different historical periods. Among ...

Towering bronzes depicting emperors once graced an ancient shrine in a region of what is now Turkey that was once part of ...

The cult pyramid to the southeast is the only such monument known from the Middle Kingdom. It has two chapels, to the north ...

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Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze ...

In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...