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

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. Credit...Lorenzo De Masi, via Torlonia Foundation ...

But for some of us, thinking about the Roman Empire is not just about the grand architecture or military ... Helpfully there is a fragment of a marble relief held in the British Museum that ...

“The word aigai means ‘goats’ in ancient Greek ... Opening a marble sarcophagus with trembling hands, Andronikos found a small golden coffin, or larnax, with a relief star on the lid.

The structure is primarily made of marble sourced from Greek regions such as Thasos and Mount Pentelicus. As an Ionic temple, it features intricate friezes, gables, and pediments reminiscent of ...

The Strangford Apollo is an ancient Greek sculpture of a nude boy, with the arms and lower legs missing. It dates to around 490 BC, making it one of the latest examples of the kouros type of statue, ...

A South Carolinian, Robert Mills had studied architecture at the elbow of ... Office Building saluted the grassroots democracy of ancient Greece—a vision more in keeping with Jackson's own ...

This door was originally sealed from the inside with marble door leaves, on which decorative elements like nails were carved in relief to imitate ... offering valuable insight into ancient burial ...

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The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology. In Greek and Roman ...

But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are special ... it's suspected that many artists in ancient Rome were Greeks, some enslaved, who were adapting images from their ...