Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

The timeline for lens-enhanced masterpieces gets pushed back 35 centuries. In the process, the little bombshell also upends the timeline for ancient Greek art. Idealized depictions of the naturalistic ...

An ancient sculpture of Alexander the Great was recently discovered inside the storage room of a Greek museum. The surprising find was made by Angeliki Kottaridi, a leading archaeologist, and ...

A terracotta mask of a satyr unearthed in Russia was exclusive evidence of the presence of ancient Greek Theater on the Taman ...

The paper examines the figurative language used in Greek art of the Archaic period to represent old age. In particular, it aims at defining the physical features chosen by Greek artists and craftsmen ...

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

Fewer than 200 bronze sculptures from the Hellenistic era -- a period that began more than 2,000 years ago -- survive today. About a quarter of those are gathered in an exhibit at the National Gallery ...

Did the Ancient Greek have laptops? Of course not, but that isn’t stopping some people from looking at an ancient statue and thinking they see one. The marble sculpture, created around 100 BC, is ...

Malaka, an ancient Phoenician city in today's Spain, thrived as a Mediterranean hub enriched by Greek trade, art, and cultural influence.