An excavation within Laodicea uncovered a 2,100-year-old statue head of the goddess Hygieia. Revered as the goddess of health and cleanliness, statues of Hygieia were often located at key healing ...

Over the past two decades, excavations at Laodicea, the Roman provincial capital of Phrygia in modern-day Turkey, have produced some remarkable finds. These have included frescoed travertine walls, a ...

Laodicea was one of the wealthiest cities of the Roman Empire and one of the Seven Churches of Asia addressed in the Book of ...

“The fifth season of excavation for possibly unearthing the Laodicea Temple from Dokhaharan region of Nahavand city came to an end after some new clues on the ancient sanctuary was found,” Nahavand ...

Archaeologists pulled a nearly two-meter white marble statue of Athena from rubble fill at the ancient city of Laodicea in ...

An ancient theater in southwestern Turkey will reopen when restoration work is completed in the 2,200-year-old site next year. The ancient city of Laodicea, which is listed as a tentative UNESCO World ...

Based on the statue's artistic style, archaeologists have dated it to the reign of the first Roman Emperor Augustus, who ruled between 27 BCE and 14 CE. A statue of Athena, the Greek goddess of war ...

The project also aims at solving the problems of the residents of the districts near the site, who haven’t been allowed to construct buildings for over 50 years, ISNA quoted provincial tourism chief ...

Recently, in the article dedicated to posca, the sour, watered-down wine favored by lower-class Romans, we mentioned that they were unaware of why this drink was good for their health, since there was ...

Originally built in the 2nd century BCE, it was destroyed by an earthquake in the 3rd century CE and subsequently rebuilt. The ancient theater of Laodicea, located in Denizli, Turkey, was revived ...