Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and also served as a messenger of the gods. Iris was a prominent figure in many ancient myths.

Archaeologists in Greece have discovered an ancient sculptor's workshop which may provide a rare glimpse into what daily life was like during the Hellenistic period. Teams found the 3,000-year-old ...

During excavation of a well at a house in western Syria, a lucky discovery turned up an ancient mosaic — depicting the Greek ...

Deities once represented abstractly — through thrones, footprints or trees — began to take anthropomorphic forms. Ancient India ... depiction of a nagini (a female naga), with a human torso ...

Amateur archaeologists uncovered a sandstone relief of the Roman goddess of victory in Northumberland. The find occurred in a ...

The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the ... from prehistory to the middle ages represent women in many guises, from goddesses, religious icons, mothers, entrepreneurs, and ...

This is a bronze hook from Ancient Egypt ... Tawaret was a goddess of childbirth and a protector of women and children. She was thought to be a ferocious demon as well as a protective and caring ...

The exhibition traces how religious imagery took hold in South Asia and beyond through serpent spirits and wide-hipped ...