Ancient Athens was sacked four times, starting with the Persian invasion in 480 BC and ending with the Visigoth destruction ...

Ancient Greek vase painting is fascinating ... with notable production centers being Athens, Corinth, and Sparta. In terms of styles, different regions had their distinctive characteristics.

The first city of a million was built two thousand years ago. But how did they make Ancient Athens and Rome work without petrol, gas or electricity? Professor Wallace-Hadrill finds out.

Encaustic painting originated in Ancient Greece. The earliest written mention can be found in Pliny the Elder’s encyclopedia The Natural History.Over the following centuries, it was adopted by ...

Athens was the place to go in ancient Greece for culture ... but there were competitions for music, painting, acting and dancing, as well as athletics.

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered ... feast after bumping into them in the public meeting place of classical Athens known as the agora, reconstructed in this illustration.