When the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague loaned its most famous work for an exhibition in 2023, it needed to find something ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

The ReVis project utilized non-invasive diagnostic and imaging techniques, including high-resolution photography, analyses, ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, was repatriated to Greece from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of ...

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

For centuries, the stark white marble statues of ancient Greece and Rome have stood as timeless symbols of classical beauty. But these sculptures, now frozen in monochrome, looked dramatically ...

Coe and Coventry are two-time Olympic champions — in track and swimming, respectively — and Samaranch is the longest-serving IOC member of the seven. The Spanish financier joined in 2001 when his ...

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, left, and Greece’s President Constantine Tassoulas arrive at the opening ceremony of the 144th IOC session, which will elect the new IOC ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even scented ... and oils used on statues of gods such as Artemis and Hera. According to the researcher who published the study, Cecilie ...