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While traveling the Greek world in the 2nd century CE, the geographer Pausanias visited the statue of Zeus at Olympia. The ...

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The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not ...

#17 Ancient Greek Gold Tiara (Diadem), 325-330 Bc , Demetrias/Thessaly Stathatos Collection Gallery, National Archaeological Museum, Athens Photo: Gsry Todd Image credits: Archeology and art ...

Marble statues, iconic symbols of ancient Greek art, first emerged as life-sized works around the 6th century B.C., evolving from smaller ivory, clay, and bronze figures crafted as early as the 8th ...

There are no angels to lift her to heaven, no tragic symbolism. Only a girl, peacefully at rest. At the time of its unveiling in the 1880s, the sculpture stunned viewers with its intimacy and realism.

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