An art installation inspired by the sun has gone on display at a swimming pool. The sculpture, created by artist Luke Jerram, ...

An ancient Greek relief sculpture featuring an ear may seem strange to some, but it was made with the hopes that someone ...

A gold heist in Ancient Greece on the prosperous island of Sifnos is considered to have been among the largest in recorded ...

Alexander Leskinen shows how he paints a stormy environment featuring harpies, the winged messengers of Zeus.

He was contemplating the klismos, a sculptural chair with a curved backrest, woven seat, and tapered saber legs that swoop ...

According to official sources cited by The Guardian, discussions between Greece's Foreign Ministry and the chairman of the British Museum, George Osborne, are nearing a potential deal to return the ...

A rare 5th-century BC bone stylus unearthed in Sicily features an erotic carving of the Greek god Dionysus—his bearded face ...

Archaeologists believe that the stylus was carved to resemble a herm, a type of sculpture in ancient Greece that was often ...

As Greece builds to accommodate a rise in tourism and other development projects, unearthed antiquities complicate progress. Archaeologists speculate that this recently found ancient Minoan ...

The tomb of the barbarian king who sacked Rome. The treasures of the Second Temple. A shipwreck filled with masterpieces of Ancient Greek sculpture. These are some of the greatest ancient treasures ...

New research suggests that the 8,000 life-size statues of soldiers, known as the Terracotta Warriors, which were built to ‘protect’ the First Emperor of China in the afterlife, were actually inspired ...

The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the ...