The world of archaeology and art is often filled with thrilling discoveries, but few match the sheer surprise and sere ...
Baby names inspired by Greek history and mythology are gaining popularity in the US. From Athena to Zeus, there is a name for your new baby.
A headless and armless small marble Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period turned up in the trash in Thessaloniki.
After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...
No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...
The Acropolis Museum located only 1,000 feet from the famed hill of the same name hosts some of the world's most important ...
A HUGE "fortune” of 400-year-old treasure has been found crammed inside the leg of a statue in a church ... various silver coins and hundreds of ancient pennies. Dräger said: "It is nothing ...
Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Roman and Egyptian works. The statue’s original owner, William Weddell—a British landowner and politician—purchased it during the mid-1700s in Rome for his ...
Wait a second, didn’t another professional sports team from Detroit make a playoff run recently? The iconic Spirit of Detroit statue downtown donned a Detroit Lions jersey this week after the team ...
A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...
One of the few women in Ancient Greek academe, Hypatia of Alexandria was a renowned philosopher and mathematician — and she was killed because of it. People primarily remember Hypatia of Alexandria, ...
This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.