Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered an ancient sarcophagus depicting a scene familiar to many today: a drinking game. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus which depicts a scene of the mythical gods Dionysus and Hercules engaged in a drinking ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This statue appears to depict Emperor Decius as Hercules. The statue wears the skin of the Nemean lion, a beast that Hercules ...

A Palmdale man was sentenced Thursday to three months in federal prison for illegally importing a 2,000-pound ancient mosaic depicting the Roman god Hercules dating from the era of the Roman Empire by ...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A newly uncovered Roman-era mosaic in Cyprus depicting Hercules’ Labors will be transferred to a new, dedicated wing of a museum in the coastal town of Larnaca, where crews ...

Construction workers unearthed a life-size marble statue of a Roman emperor dressed as Hercules while repairing a Roman sewer. “I doubt anyone was expecting a find like this under these circumstances, ...

A California man has been found guilty of illegally importing a Roman mosaic of Hercules created two millennia ago, federal officials say. Getty Images/iStockphoto A California man has been found ...