Archaeologists in Caesarea, an ancient port city located on the Mediterranean coast of modern-day Israel, have discovered a 1 ...

Archaeologists in Israel have unearthed a Roman-era sarcophagus that depicts Dionysus beating Hercules in a drinking contest.

In a discovery hailed as the “first of its kind,” archaeologists in Israel have found a Roman marble sarcophagus which ...

Israeli archaeologists have discovered a remarkable 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus featuring a rare depiction of Greek ...

A marble coffin with vivid carvings of a fabled face-off between Heracles and Dionysus discovered in Caesarea is the sole ...

"The entire excavation team stood around excitedly, and as we cleared more sand, we couldn't believe what we were seeing" - ...

Israeli archaeologists working at a site outside of Caesarea uncovered an exquisitely carved marble sarcophagus that had been ...

Newly-uncovered 1,700-year-old marble sarcophagus bears mythological scene of Dionysus and Heracles in a drinking contest.

An ancient Roman sarcophagus found in Israel, featuring the Greek god Dionysus and Hercules, looks like a scene straight out ...

This is the first time we are finding the scene of the wine contest between the god Dionysus and Hercules on a sarcophagus in ...

Sarcophagus of the Spouses, one of the most celebrated artifacts of Etruscan art will undergo a restoration in full view of ...

In this intact side of the sarcophagus, Hercules reclines on a lion skin after losing a drinking contest to Dionysus. | Credit: Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority A 1,700-year-old Roman ...