Ancient Greeks saw Olympus as a divine realm of Zeus and the gods, not a mountain. Its link to Mount Olympus emerged in later ...

TASS/. An ancient Greek altar untypical of Greek colonies on the Black Sea coast has been unearthed at the site of the antique city of Phanagoria on the Taman Peninsula in Russia's southern ...

They ranged from simple altars or memorials to more elaborate ... Eros, known as Cupid in Roman mythology, was the ancient Greek god of love and desire, often depicted as a winged youth with ...

Marriage in Ancient Greece was an important union and the wedding ceremony was a three-day celebration for family and friends.

In ancient Greece, heroons were erected to remember ... greatly in stature across Greek cities or temples, from humble altars for remembrance to sprawling compounds that housed cult statues ...

The altar is a three-tiered square platform built of white marble, its shape symbolizing the ancient notion that the earth is square. There are four stone staircases, one on each side, leading up ...