Credit: Alexander van Loon/Flickr/CC BY-SA 2.0 The mystery over the Riace Bronzes, two magnificent ancient Greek statues, remains, more than half a century after the day they were recovered off the ...
The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched but certain researchers think otherwise. The idea is based entirely on a new examination of a dialogue written ...
The statue, slightly taller than a human, according to the post, was found in Varna, the ancient city Odessa, and displayed a middle-aged man with a short beard, dressed in a Roman toga and ...
What it tells us about the past: The "Younger Memnon" is an 8.8-foot-tall (2.7 meter) broken head and torso remnant of a statue from ancient Egypt ... from confusion over Greek inscriptions ...
The statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes is 7 feet tall. This particular find was discovered during excavation of an ancient Roman sewer in the city of Heraclea Sintica, Fox News Digital reported.
Featuring a total of 279 artifacts rooted in ancient ... Greece share diverse beauty tastes that surpass our cultural differences." A small gold carving is the exhibition's highlight. The gold ...
A recent exhibition in Athens highlighting Moore’s concern with light and the history of sculpture is part of a broader mission to shed new light, gradually, on his life and work ...
A legal fight over whether a prized ancient Greek statue at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles should be returned to Italy will head to Europe's highest court, an attorney said Friday in Rome.
On October 25, 2024, environmental activists from the group Just Stop Oil targeted a statue of the ancient Greek goddess Demeter at the British Museum as part of a climate protest. The organization ...
Environmental campaign group Just Stop Oil has taken its protests to the British Museum, dressing a statue of a Greek goddess in an orange high vis jacket, and displaying a speech bubble beside it ...
This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly over a dying human Lapith. This focus on human suffering epitomises the intense humanism of Greek art. The sculpture also ...