Last weekend witnessed hundreds of people attend a series of commemorative events in Canberra and Sydney. The events saw the ...

Oscar Wilde set out on a transformative journey through Greece, a voyage that would leave an indelible mark on his identity.

Since the 1990s, German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann has been using scientific advances to give Greek statues their original colours back. He uses ultraviolet lamps, infrared and X-rays to ...

Roman writer Cicero referenced the treatment of a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis in Sicily ... can be attributed to the 18th-century German art historian and archaeologist Johann Winckelmann ...

The oldest synagogue in antiquity was on the Greek island of Delos - the island of god Apollo in the Cyclades - and attests the presence of a Jewish community ...

Once home to a thriving Jewish majority, Thessaloniki holds fragments of a lost world. One traveller's journey to find them ...

The Roman Empire has never ceased to fascinate the world, even after the fall of its western half 1½ millennia ago. And with ...

It feels a privilege to watch a stately trail of yachts glide in single file through the deep and narrow Corinth Canal.

Cher Ami is credited with saving the lives of 194 members of Whittlesey’s “Lost Battalion.” He became known as a war hero in ...

It was created in the 7th century BC - It was found in the mud in 1914, then disappeared, ending up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, until it was discovered by Greek-born prosecutor ...

The new film "Death of a Unicorn," starring Jenna Ortega, features the mythical beast as a brutal killer. From purity to ...