Archaeologists believe that a wealthy family that enjoyed a rousing lifestyle commissioned the piece to reflect their ...

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

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.

"It was like a scene out of a movie… we couldn't believe what we were seeing." During excavations in Caesarea, Israel, ...

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

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

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 ...