In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient ... a funerary relief, the ...

This is the only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms is a poignant example of classical Greek funerary art, often associated with themes of ...

Here are some of Hake’s most notable works: Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. (1916): The company’s Greek ... Art Deco grills and copper and bronze lamps, the relief sculptures of ...

Yet despite a wealth of data and new techniques including ancient DNA analysis ... images of a crouching cat and a wild boar. The sculpture dates to the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (ca.

In ancient Greece and Rome ... enhancing the religious and cultural significance of these sculptures,” writes Bill Giannopoulos for the Greek City Times. In some instances, the scents were ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

She made the discovery after immersing herself in the works of Roman writers like Cicero and inscriptions on ancient Greek temples. In Delos, Greece, temple inscriptions show that some statues ...

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...