The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote island in Dodecanese, Greece.

A Danish researcher has just demonstrated that certain Greek and Roman sculptures were scented with perfume. A discovery that revolutionises our sensory picture of ancient art.

As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21, we delve into the world of poetry in ancient Greece, from ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greek police officers walk outside the National Gallery, as Nikolaos Papadopoulos, member of parliament of ...

Greek MP Nikolaos Papadopoulos ... “There is no censorship in art,” said Nikitas Kaklamanis, the speaker of Greece’s parliament. The Ministry of Culture “never takes actions of censorship ...

So, let’s examine the matter from the perspective of art and symbolism. Sport was of fundamental importance in ancient Greece ... half-beast and malicious creatures. These are satyrs or centaurs, all ...

Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered a series of nearly life-size frescoes spanning three walls of an ancient banquet hall. Set against a ruby-red backdrop, the wall paintings depict female ...

The cycle of paintings shed light on the mysteries of Bacchus, the Roman version of Dionysus — the ancient Greek god of wine ... and young satyrs with pointed ears playing the flute or ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city ... a "megalography" from the Greek for "large painting ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city ... from the Greek for “large painting”, the frieze ...