The Louvre Museum has temporarily closed its Campana Gallery after engineers discovered weakened structural supports beneath its upper-floor offices, prompting precautionary safety measures amid ...

Louvre has temporarily closed its Greek ceramics Gallery due to structural risks, amid ongoing security concerns and ...

Crete’s sheer size can make deciding where to go a little daunting. This guide can help you decide which side of the ...

While his interest in ancient Greco-Roman sculpture served as a wellspring of inspiration, an often overlooked part of his ...

American actress Emma Stone has been crowned the world’s most beautiful woman according to the ancient Greek Golden Ratio – the same mathematical formula that shaped the Parthenon and classical ...

The hair color of the ancient Greeks has long intrigued historians. Luckily, evidence of their appearance can be found in ...

Through a new discovery, researchers have put to rest age-old questions about an ancient Roman pool in Bahçeli, Turkey.

In 1928, John Ringling of the Ringling Bros circus acquired around 3,300 pieces of ancient Mediterranean art that had been in the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met). The auction ...

Every year, Athens draws millions of history buffs to the sun-bleached stones of its ancient temples. The city’s legendary landmarks—the Acropolis with its iconic Parthenon, the Agora with its deep ...

Divers exploring the centuries-old Antikythera wreck retrieved intact pieces of the ship and found artifacts that shed light on life aboard the craft. The Antikythera shipwreck dates back to the first ...

Excavations in Paros, Greece support previous suspicions that the site was once a workshop used for carving marble sculptures. The recent excavation discovered an “androna”—a social space in Greek ...

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