The story of Ancient Roman Emperor Hardrian and his lover Antinous has long been the stuff of literal legend, captivating the ...

Dolphins in ancient Greece were revered as messengers of the gods and held a divine dimension that has survived through the ...

Greco-Roman sculptors created artworks with more than just visual beauty in mind, and strove to indulge all of the senses in ...

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Last year an illustrious collection of sculpture visited the Louvre for the first time. Now that medley of marble has taken its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean and settled into the Art ...

No trip to see the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii is complete without a visit to the renowned National Archeological Museum of Naples. Hundreds of artifacts found amid the destruction ...

Prominent British anthropologist and television presenter Professor Alice Roberts has called for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece, reigniting the long-standing cultural and diplomatic ...

Many centuries later, these ancient beliefs that athletes should look like sculptures took on very different meanings. As Stocking says, “Greek sculpture has been appropriated for body fascism ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greek police officers walk outside the National Gallery, as Nikolaos Papadopoulos, member of parliament of ...

On the topic of ownership of ancient art and artifacts, Chicago Sun Times has stated, “Knowing the ownership history of a painting, sculpture or other artwork— what is known In the museum world as ...