A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a ...

Archaeologists working at Gela in southern Sicily have recovered a remarkably delicate, 5th-century BC bone stylus that blends the everyday with the provocative: a carved head - likely Dionysus - and, ...

Archaeologists believe that the stylus was carved to resemble a herm, a type of sculpture in ancient Greece that was often placed at crossroads or in front of temples to ward off evil. Like the stylus ...

It’s not the size of the pendant, but the amount of luck it provides. Archeologists discovered a heavily handled penis pendant at a fort erected near northern England landmark Hadrian’s Wall and ...

A phallus-shaped good luck charm from the Roman era was found inside the wall of a fort. Screengrab from The Vindolanda Trust's Facebook post Hadrian’s Wall — a 73-mile construction across northern ...