Scientists were digging at an excavation site in the village of Rupite close to the border with Greece when they discovered a marble statue of the Greek god Hermes in an ancient Roman sewer.

And the elite Romans immortalized in these marble busts spoke Greek as a matter of course. We don’t know enough about just who made these marbles, but scholars have assumed that most “Roman ...

The graveyard of Liternum, near Naples, was in use between the first century B.C.E. and the third century C.E.

Labourers digging a ditch to lay gas pipes in Athens uncovered an ancient marble statue and Roman-era archeological ... referring to a famous sculpture of the Greek god Hermes.