PAROS, Greece — In a surprise search Wednesday, Greek authorities seized 17 unregistered artifacts and a Byzantine icon from the vacation house of Marion True, the former J. Paul Getty Museum ...

The Odeon of Herod Atticus recently opened the 70th season of the annual Athens Epidaurus Festival, a cherished annual ...

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 ...

Art Bites: The Lost Colors of Ancient Greek Sculptures. Ancient sculptors were liberal in their use of hues. A painted replica of an archer (originally made around 490 BC) ...

The statues were rigid, and often standing up straight with neutral facial expressions—this is a far cry from the soft, airy Greek statues we most associate with the ancient culture. By 500 B.C ...

Eight works of looted art – some thought to be more than 2,000 years old – have been returned to Italy by the world-famous Christie’s auction house.

One well-preserved painting of Hippolytus and Phaedra, two characters from a Greek tragedy, gave the home its provisional name, the House of Phaedra. Hippolytus and Phaedra also appear in a small ...

Greek statues, now in their ... They also looked at as many ancient works of art in collections around the world as they could get their hands on. How the Brinkmann's reconstructed statues from ...

Auctions A 2,000-Year-Old Gold Greek Stater Just Fetched $6 Million at Auction, Making It the Most Expensive Ancient Coin Ever Sold. The coin once belonged to the State Hermitage Museum until it ...