In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

Find out what ancient Greek theatre was like and learn about different ancient Greek festivals and art. How did the ancient Greeks change the world? What did the ancient Greeks do for us?

Brooklyn-based art collective MSCHF has just revealed a sculpture that offers a playful take on Mickey Mouse and ancient ...

Ancient Greek art spans a period between about 900 and 30 BCE and is divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Throughout that period, artists worked with a wide ...

Atop Cividade Hill in northern Portugal, the ancient city of Bracasa Augusta lays in ruin. Today, the site belongs to the modern-day city of Braga, but 2,000 years ago, it was occupied by the Romans ...

From lost masterpieces and ancient artifacts with mysterious purposes to discoveries illuminating life in past centuries ...

This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...

The ancestor of all “best-of” lists was the Hellenistic accounting of monumental must-sees. Only one remains in anything like ...

Age-old treasures around the world you’re highly unlikely to ever see in person, whether they're out of bounds due to their ...

The inscription on the silver amulet provides some of the oldest-known evidence of Christian communities living north of the ...

The Gods of Olympus section features the sculptures created in the Classical Period of ancient Greece, from 480 to 325 BC.