Even Ancient Greek stage dramas were 300 years away from the time in which Homer’s said to have written The Odyssey, and his other great epic poem, the Iliad. The only truly narrative art form ...

The monument features a reclining ancient Greek warrior in a helmet, holding a circular shield ... and Atlantic—were added to honor Greek sailors lost in war. The inscriptions draw inspiration from ...

From the Campidoglio’s exalted heights, ancient travelers gazed at a rich urban tapestry below. Rome was the largest metropolis the world had ever seen, and its marble structures, the Greek ...

Public Domain Astonishing details of Alexander the Great’s personal armor as he prepared for the Battle of Gaugamela against the Persians are described by the Ancient Greek historian ... [Alexander] ...

Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation.

The lecture hall of an "impressive high school" from an ancient Greek settlement was recently uncovered in Italy – with the discovery highlighting the similarities between ancient and modern ...

Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures from ancient ... from Greek and Roman art of birds with ...

Credit: Heritage Conservation Jerusalem Pikiwiki Israel Through the use of advanced digital techniques such as multispectral photography and Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), the research team ...

Apr. 14, 2025 — Wealth inequality began shaping human societies more than 10,000 years ago, long before the rise of ancient empires or the invention of writing. That's according to a new study ...

This object,… Bite marks found on a skeleton discovered in a Roman cemetery in York have revealed the first archaeological evidence of combat between a human and a lion in ancient Rome.… On the vast ...

Ancient sculptors ... earliest examples of private art collecting, Brinkmann says. The work lent a decorative flourish to a nouveau-riche household. To the Greeks, the marriage of color and ...