The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

There are many mysteries concerning the ancient Greek world, including the identity of some of its most illustrious members ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

THESSALONIKI, Greece — A marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki, police said Wednesday.

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the ...

The study’s Danish author, classical archaeologist Cecilie Brons, analyzed ancient texts and artwork, collecting evidence that in ancient Greece and Rome, it was common to anoint a sculpture ...

For most western Europeans it was the first time they had ever been able to look closely at Greek sculpture, and they were overwhelmed and inspired by the breathing vitality and the beauty of ...

490 B.C. sculpture of the Goddess from the pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina. Vinzenz Brinkmann typically leaves areas white where no evidence of original coloration ...

There have been twelve Greek Popes in the history of the papacy, with Saint Peter considered to be the first Catholic leader.

I had traveled more than 6,000 miles to ask Canavesi about one of the world’s most contested pieces of ancient art: a 2,400-year-old statue of a woman believed to be Aphrodite, the Greek goddess ...

The bronze statue, which dates to between 150 B.C. and ... but recent testing has led experts to believe it depicts an unknown Greek philosopher. The museum bought it in 1986 for $1.85 million ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...