The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

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

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so ... discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates on the east ...

“Gender Queer is an auto­biographical graphic memoir that explores themes of gender identity, asexuality and self-­discovery, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco ... it depicts an unknown Greek philosopher. The museum bought it in 1986 for $1.85 million from Edward H. Merrin Inc., a New York art gallery.

Homer’s Odyssey has been adapted countless times on the big screen. From Theo Angelopoulos’s haunting Ulysses’s Gaze to the ...

Flowers have long carried meaning across cultures. Egyptians revered the lotus as a symbol of purity and rebirth, while ancient Greeks crowned the heads of poets and warriors with laurel, representing ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands ... Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and ...