Archaeologists in Greece have hit the jackpot with the unearthing of a magnificent ancient structure, complete with marble lion sculptures and stunning gold decorations. This echoes last year's ...
Finally, they discovered lion statues made from Pentelic marble, which was gathered from Mount Pentelikon in Attica, Greece in ancient times. This is the same marble that forms the Parthenon in ...
Angelos TZORTZINIS/AFP/AFP Labourers digging a ditch to lay gas pipes in Athens uncovered an ancient marble statue ... referring to a famous sculpture of the Greek god Hermes.
Amazingly, the ancient Greeks themselves achieved this level of precision, in part by using highly sophisticated tools. Korres, by studying tool marks in old marble, has reconstructed ancient ...
The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...
Sculptors carved lifelike marble statues and decorated them with brightly ... music and dance. So, in ancient Greece, theatres were everywhere. Every town had a big bowl-shaped arena, usually ...
A wildfire in southern California reached the grounds of the Getty Villa Museum which houses exquisite exhibits from ancient ...
The exhibition, with the theme of "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts, will continue its tour in ...
Labourers digging a ditch to lay gas pipes in Athens uncovered an ancient marble statue and ... referring to a famous sculpture of the Greek god Hermes. The statue was discovered on Monday while ...