Deities

Former US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Athens on Monday for talks with Greek leadership, including PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis, focusing squarely on efforts to control climate change, given his appointment as the inaugural US special presidential envoy for climate.

Excavations have been ongoing in the ancient city of Aigai in the western province of Manisa. A 2.7-meter-high statue, which was unearthed in 2004-05 and is the only Hestia statue in the world that has survived from the Hellenistic period, will be exhibited at the Manisa Archeology Museum, which is set to be opened this year.

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Tracking down the traces of the forgotten god Pan on the legendary paths of mountainous Arcadia

By Dr Pierre Casse, IEDC Professor and Elnura Irmatova, IEDC Research Assistan "I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability" Oscar Wilde Background God (the ultimate leader!) has always been questioned and even challenged. It seems that human beings have a very strong need to get an answer to a simple question: Why do we exist?

Raunchy scenes may redden faces at a new exhibition in Pompeii on art and sexuality in the ancient Roman city, where sculptures and paintings of breasts and buttocks abound.

Archaeologists excavating the city, which was destroyed by the eruption of nearby Vesuvius in 79 A.D., were initially startled to discover erotic images everywhere, from garden statues to ceiling frescos.

The 2,000-year-old figurines of goddess Diana, the ruler of nature and wildlife in Roman mythology, have been put up on display for the first time.

The statue of Artemis, one of the Greek mythology goddesses, which was found in 1963 in the ancient city of Thermai Thesos in the western province of Manisa's Kula district and kept in storage, has been put on display for the first time at the İzmir Archeology Museum after half a century.

Bobsledder Lisa Buckwitz has a tattoo of goddess Athena

During the ongoing excavation works in Claros, located in İzmir and considered as the oldest oracle center in the world, some pieces of monumental statues of Apollo, Artemis and Leto have come to light.

The pieces have been moved to an area where conservation works will be carried out.