The 2,200-year-old Ptolemaic Dynasty-era statue was believed to have been looted during World War II from a museum now ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos ...

Take one Pompeiian example, set up by the freedman Publius Vesonius Phileros, which opens with ineffable politeness: ...

New discoveries are overturning the assumptions that used to be made about a woman’s place in society, writes Emily Hauser ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The Monastery of Panagia Hozoviotissa, carved into ...

CC BY 2.0/flickr Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five distinct eras, the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age and Hellenistic Age. By looking at archaeology, art, ...

Homer's Odyssey laid the foundations for modern European literature, so it's a bold claim to say he'd be proud of Christopher Nolan's movie version.

Statue of Marcus Aurelius, one of the most famous Roman emperors to love ancient Greece and its philosophy ... some verses about the myth of Troy himself. He is often quoted as saying: “Only Greeks ...

Schliemann's haul from Troy, on view at the Neues Museum in Berlin Public domain via Wikimedia Commons But whether the ancient residents of Troy truly sipped wine out of these goblets has long ...

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

Untouched since the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, this small dwelling provides a vivid look into ancient art and architectural shifts ... This scene shows Helen of ...