The copies mostly end up at gift shops around the country. Prices start at 20 euros ($24) for a small Cycladic figurine and go as high as 10,000 euros ($11,560) for a copy of the Hermes of Praxiteles.

Archaeologists admit that as long as there is no written evidence of the people who lived in the Cyclades in the 3rd millennium BC, understanding and interpreting their art will be difficult. The ...

Six individuals were arrested in Crete for their involvement in an antiquities smuggling ring, with authorities seizing over 40 archaeological artifacts, including Cycladic figurines, statuettes ...

Museums are as common as pigeons in Athens, but an unexpected highlight was the Museum of Cycladic Art ... is best known for its small-scale, marble figurines – through history, the sculpture ...

In addition to the marble Cycladic figurines of the early Cycladic period of the Museum of Cycladic Art, the exhibition includes 135 exhibits from the collections of the Ephorate of Antiquities of the ...

The exhibition contains Neolithic Cycladic figurines, of which the vast majority depict the female rather than male body, often in an abstracted or stylized manner. They are generally understood ...

Visitors will be able to see aspects of the history of the Cyclades, as documented through the female marble figurines created by the island societies of the third millennium BC. The Cycladic ...

The most remarkable finds are the unique "tip pots“ and the "Cycladic figurines“ – small clay sculptures with distinctive features, notably the bell-shaped skirts – which can now be found in the ...

The most notable finds are the unique "spouted pots" and "Cycladic figurines'' – small clay sculptures with distinctive features, particularly the "bell-shaped" skirts – which can now be found ...

In May 2024, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 14 Red Cross Societies, and the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) collaborated to establish the Red Cross Field Hospital ...

They’re like tuning forks. Image Some of the 161 figures and vessels in white chiseled marble on display in the exhibition “Cycladic Art: The Leonard N. Stern Collection on Loan From the ...