In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...

A 4 c. BC Greek fresco bearing striking similarities to the traditional portrayals of the Virgin Mary has been discovered in ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

Ancient Greeks and Romans often decorated sculptures ... sculpture persisted after Johann Winckelmann, an 18th-century art historian and archaeologist, wrote that “the whiter the body is ...

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The ancient site of Delphi, where the famed oracle once was will host an AI-driven art installation seeking to revive those ...

Cecilie Brøns, a senior researcher and curator of the Glyptoteket museum's collection of ancient Greek and Roman art in Copenhagen, Denmark, says ancient texts provide evidence that statues were often ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideologies. But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even ...

The Greek municipality of Tenea boasts a rich ancient history—and the archaeological artifacts to prove it. Finds in the region have long hinted at a once-thriving settlement, with the latest ...