The Macedonian tomb of Stavroupolis stands as the largest and best-preserved example of its kind in Greece's Thrace.

Founded by Alexander the Great's father King Philip II in 356 B.C.E., the historic city of Philippi has become one of the most important archaeological sites in the region. Over the last century, ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

"It looks like manmade marble when it shines in the sunlight ... which combined elements of ancient Roman and Greek architecture with stylistic embellishments of the Renaissance (the library ...

The various levels of the Celestyal Crystal are named after Greek gods and ... we shuffle along on marble flagstones worn slippery by aeons of feet and come across a bas-relief carving of Nike ...

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, ...

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... “Rome becomes the pig,” says Price. This Roman marble relief depicts the Trojan hero Aeneas and his son ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago ...

They analyzed ancient DNA from 435 individuals from archaeological sites across Eurasia ... Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points ... of years ago -- from architecture to objects like ...

The duplex unit still has some Greek Revival style in evidence with two black marble mantels on view in the double parlor. The expansive room — likely created by removing a wall with a broad opening ...