For centuries, the world has admired the stunning beauty of ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, gushing over their intricate craftsmanship, lifelike details, and grandeur. These statues ...

Greece welcomed the repatriation of three ancient sculpture fragments from the Parthenon—a horse and two male ...

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

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

Phryne was a notable ancient Greek hetaira, or courtesan, of Athens, who is remembered throughout the millennia for her ...

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Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color ... The work lent a decorative flourish to a nouveau-riche household. To the Greeks, the marriage of color and form had deeper connotations ...

The study adds to research from the past decade into the art of antiquity that has found that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors. The myth of whiteness in ...

To read about a marble sculpture unearthed in the ancient Greek city of Philippi, go to "A Young Hercules." ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...