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Beneath the temple’s gold-plated roof, an immense gold-and-ivory statue of the king of the Roman gods presided over artworks from around the known world. But it was the spectacular view that ...

This is another great example of ancient temples being in use today. Built around 1,200 years ago on the popular island of Java, this ancient temple is another Buddhist sacred site that continues to ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

I moved from California to Italy and have been working as a tour guide in Rome for 17 years. The crowds in Rome seem to get bigger every year, so I recommend checking out Ostia Antica instead. The ...

Today it’s topped with an equestrian statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, hero of the Risorgimento – the revolution that led to Italy’s unification.

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ROME, March 1 (Reuters) - A giant statue dating back about 2,500 years has been restored to Sicily's Valley of the Temples, an archeological site which ancient Greek poet Pindar described as "man ...

Statue of the Greek god Atlas rebuilt at the Temple of Zeus in Agrigento. Credit: Zde. CC BY 4.0/Wikimedia Commons/ zde A colossal statue of the sky-bearing Greek titan Atlas, which was buried for ...