In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the ...

Gyms (gymnasiums) in Ancient Greece were vibrant communal hubs where elite men forged identities through exercise and philosophical debates.

Aldo Grassini and Daniela Bottegoni, both blind, who founded in 1993 the Omero Tactile Museum, the first publicly funded tactile museum in Italy, pose for a portrait in their home in Ancona, Italy, ...

There is already significant interest from a major U.S. museum, says David Aaron gallery.

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

Pytheas of Massalia, an ancient Greek geographer, was the first Mediterranean person to reach Great Britain and the Arctic ...

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...

Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, ziggurats were not places of royal burials, but temples dedicated to the patron deity of a city ...

Every year, Athens draws millions of history buffs to the sun-bleached stones of its ancient temples. The city’s legendary landmarks—the Acropolis with its iconic Parthenon, the Agora with its deep ...

Calabria, tucked between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas, is Italy's best-kept secret. It’s a land of dramatic coastlines, ancient ruins, hilltop villages, and untouched natural beauty. And as one of ...

The ancient Romans weren’t precious about their marble statues. They didn’t sequester them in museums, displaying them out of reach, next to placards explaining their provenance, context, and meaning.

The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the ...