While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece ... the statue of Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, the forest, and animals in Greek mythology, located ...

The Statue of Zeus at Olympia was ... the most magnificent and largest temples in the ancient world, which was dedicated to the Greek goddess Artemis. King Croesus of Lydia built the temple ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues were doused with ... In Sicily, for instance, the statue of Artemis was ritualistically anointed with perfume. At Greece’s Sanctuary of Delos, meanwhile ...

Greece welcomed the repatriation of three ancient sculpture fragments from the Parthenon—a horse and two male ...

An exploration of some of the oldest temples in the world, shedding light on the lives of ancient civilizations and their ...

Today one can follow the itinerary of an ancient traveler as he—a peripatetic Greek scholar of that ... fingers is larger than most statues.” THE TEMPLE OF ARTEMIS IN EPHESUS The colossus ...

Before Mykonos became famous, tourists came trickling into the island on their way to see the ancient ... Greek legend says that this was the birthplace of Apollo (god of music and light) and ...

Athens, April 23, 2025 – On the occasion of the passing of Pope Francis, the Head of the Catholic Church, we recall the momentous day on 24 March 2023 when Greece welcomed the repatriation of three ...