This sarcophagus offers an unusual perspective of the idea of death—not as an end, but as the beginning of a new path.” ...

Hurricane Diane,” at Hartford Stage through June 29, rocks you like something less substantial than a hurricane, but Madeleine George’s modern mythic comedy is a wild ride nonetheless, a sharply ...

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 ...

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

The sarcophagus was discovered outside the known walls of Caesarea, indicating that the ancient city was far more extensive ...

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

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

“This is the very first time [we’ve found] the Dionysus and Hercules wine competition scene on a burial coffin in our region,” says Nohar Shahar, an archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities ...

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

There is probably no contemporary playwright who writes better theatrical farces than Ken Ludwig. What better way to close ...