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Their enemies portrayed them as barbarians, but their artifacts tell a different story. Between their weapons, jewelry, and ...
Beyond its sandy beaches and fascinating medieval Old Town, the Dodecanese island reserves plenty of surprises.
Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.
Archaeologists in northern England have uncovered a massive leather shoe dating back nearly 2,000 years, sparking interest in the possible presence of Roman warriors of exceptional size.
History buffs and culture vultures, mark your calendars for an exhibition that promises to whisk you away to Ancient Greece without even leaving California. The Getty Villa Museum, bouncing back ...
“Shining Armor: The Pavia Tapestries,” on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston through May 26, is part art exhibition, part history lecture and endlessly fascinating.
Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum has just added a stunning centerpiece to its Heroes and Hoplites: Warfare in Ancient Greece exhibition: a hoplite panoply dating between 400 and 200 BCE, on loan from ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s.
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, a mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the seventh century B.C. was ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, the mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the 7th century B.C. was likely stolen from ...
A new museum showcasing thousands of ancient archaeological artefacts found at sea will open next year at the Greek port of Piraeus near Athens, officials said on Monday. The EU-funded museum ...
The EU-funded museum -- the largest cultural project currently underway in Greece -- has a budget of more than 93 million euros ($97 million). Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said the new 26,000 ...