The world’s oldest erotic graffiti was discovered in 2014 in Astypalaia, a remote island in Dodecanese, Greece.

Archaeologists digging near the ancient city of Tenea in Greece have unearthed a monumental tomb complex housing precious ...

The most successful Athenian playwright was Sophocles, who won so many Greek theatre competitions that he became a big celebrity. There were three types of plays – comedies, tragedies (which ...

Greek-born sculptor George Petrides presented Greece's UN representative with a sculpture of an ancient Greek female figure ...

Atiqot / עתיקות, כרך‎ 110, The Ancient Written Wor(l)d (2023), pp. 385-394 (10 pages) Five mosaic inscriptions adorned the halls of the Byzantine-period monastery at Ḥura, four of them in Greek and ...

Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware.

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...

New research is shedding light on the bouleuterion building that once stood in the ancient city of Teos, located in ...

Stunningly and unexpected, virtually all of the selections on view in this exhibition are complete. Co-organized by the Art Institute and Rome-based Torlonia Foundation, it is the first time works ...