Album/DEA Picture Library Fruit of the vineA youthful Dionysus is crowned with grapes in a first-century A.D. marble statue at the Naples Archaeological Museum. ACI/Alamy After his extraordinary ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery of a spectacular artifact featuring two vital figures from ...

Meanwhile, a victorious Dionysus celebrates with an entourage ... but they were typically found in mosaics, not sculpture. The marble sarcophagus after its preservation. Photo: Shatil Emmanuilov ...

(It's in a) very good condition," lead archaeologist Lyudmil Vagalinski said, explaining that the marble statue had been placed in the sewer and covered with dirt, possibly as Christianity was ...

Archeologists uncovered a sarcophagus with inscriptions depicting an epic drinking battle between the Greek god Dionysus and hero ... brushed away the sand, a marble object began to appear ...

The carved marble depicts a drinking contest between the demigod Hercules and Dionysus, the Greek god of wine and parties, who is equivalent to Bacchus in the Roman pantheon. Though similar scenes ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus in the ancient city of Caesarea, bearing an intricately carved scene of a mythological drinking contest between Dionysus ...