Ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos set the standard of beauty and harmony in statues with his groundbreaking Canon of ...
The hair color of the ancient Greeks has long intrigued historians. Luckily, evidence of their appearance can be found in ...
Contributing writer for The Prospect Zane Mills VanWicklen details how the Ancient Mediterranean pavilion in the new Princeton University Art Museum is a “step back in time.” ...
Tucked away inside a corner of the University of Kansas’s Lippincott Hall is a little-known museum called the Wilcox ...
From the industrial fringes of Thessaloniki, the metropolis of layered Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman ghosts, I launched ...
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A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens
The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old ...
Greece is often described as the cradle of Western civilization, has a legacy that no one can ignore. And much of it is visible in its ruins or the places that are so ancient that any traveller will ...
The operation started today with the transfer of part of the frieze at the northern end of the Parthenon. Packed in a metal casing the frieze, which shows a ancient religious festival in honour of the ...
The opening ceremony of the Grand Egyptian Museum was breathtaking. Dozens of delegations arrived from across the Western world to enjoy Western music, Western dancing, and the grand spectacle of the ...
These LEGO IDEAS sets imagine the soaring temples, libraries, and armies of ancient Greece in plastic bricks.
The connection between Jews and Greece goes all the way back to the ancient world, even before the time of the Roman Empire. Greece was the dynamic cradle of civilisation in the Mediterranean and home ...
Efrosini Chaniotis emerges as a bold new force in contemporary art, with paintings and sculptures that radiate both intimacy ...
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