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 ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

Opening Day for the Detroit Tigers is about hope, and joy, and about things being better than they were the year before. I’m ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. A Danish study published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology in March found that statues in antiquity were ...

In the interwar period, conceptual-minded architects — from Wright in America to the Bauhaus school in Germany — turned the formerly public language of pediments and arches into a canvas for ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display ...

Modern farmhouses often incorporate a standing seam metal roof, board-and-batten or clapboard siding, and open floor plans ...

Pompano Beach’s new The Vault isn’t just a speakeasy restaurant with Prohibition-style cocktails — it’s the site of a bank heist that sent shockwaves through South Florida in the ...

But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even scented ... the sky and take a look at the painted reliefs of the pediment," reads a line about the temple from the play "Hypsipyle ...

(Think white marble, Corinthian columns, pediments, and the like ... In their place, we can expect derivative art, whitewashed literature, and anthems from The Village People.

With thousands of years of history carved into the rocks, the Rose City’s architectural beauty and links to a forgotten past ...

Tolerance, coexistence, exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations play an irreplaceable role in advancing ...