White olives known as leucocarpa, or leucolea, is a rare variety of olive tree, mainly found in the south of Italy, or "Magna ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...