The city of Crotone, a historic jewel of Magna Graecia, is embracing its Greek heritage with the addition of a new, imposing ...
A marble relief depicting a prancing horse believed to have been part of the Temple of Olympian Zeus in Agrigento, Italy, has ...
Every four years, around 50,000 people came from all over the Greek world to watch ... flocked to see the Temple of Zeus. Inside stood a huge gold and ivory statue of the king of the gods himself.
Archaeologists found an ancient bust of the Greek god Zeus in western Turkey. Located right near the remains of a temple dedicated to Aphrodite, the statue is a remnant of one of the Roman Empire ...
Whatever the precise origin of the games, they became a central aspect of Greek culture very early ... particularly the gold and ivory Statue of Zeus that sat upon his throne in the high temple ...
Aphrodite, Zeus, Julius Caesar ... One of the most famous exhibition highlights is the statue of the ancient Greek hero Heracles The collection includes a rich spectrum of ancient sculptures ...