While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

In the Puri Shree Jagannath Temple the presiding deities are three siblings Lord Jagannath Devi Subhadra and Lord Balabhadra On Rath Yatra day the three siblings come out of the Shreemandir to embark ...

A countdown of the five craziest Greek gods. Who will be #1? The most jealous, angry, violent, fun-loving, or creative?

Ancient Greece is known for its mythology, which enshrined tales of mighty warriors, here are the finest that Greek mythology ...

Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

Adelaide’s annual multi-disciplinary arts festival dedicated to the maintenance, development, promotion and celebration of ...

This ceremony, first held in 1936, harkens back to the Olympic Games’ ancient predecessor, the Heraean Games, which were held in honor of the temple’s patron goddess, Hera. The Temple of Hera ...

An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the ...

The Ancient Greeks used black and white pebbles ... Stas was a great teacher and champion of using waste in art and his mosaics in the Lemba Wall near Paphos were ground-breaking.

In recent decades, classical scholarship has shown that contrary ... the ingredients necessary for kosmesis for the statues of Hera and Artemis. The list included sponges, oil, soda carbonate ...

the golden apples that the goddess Hera had given to her husband Zeus as a wedding present. The palaces of the ancient Near East are known to have had spectacular gardens, including the Hanging ...

The “sword-and-sandal” flicks is a specific subgenre of adventure movie usually set in the era of classical Greek ... Jason is protected by the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman), and alongside ...