Many museums around the world are filled with marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome. Some viewers recognize that these works of art were not originally displayed in their glistening white form, ...

Archaeologists in southern Greece unearthed a 2,400-year-old tomb in the ancient city of Tenea, revealing a wealth of ...

Archaeologists digging near the ancient city of Tenea in Greece have unearthed a monumental tomb complex housing precious ...

Agrarian societies, historically reliant on favorable conditions in nature for their survival, created these rituals to ward ...

Tattoos can be an expression of individuality, a tribute to a special person or life event, or simply a fashion statement. But not every culture takes the same approach to inked skin. Travelling ...

Frieze depicts followers of ancient Greek god Dionysus Fresco dates to 40–30 BC Latest dig began in early 2023 ROME, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life ...

Ancient Greek physicians understood the concept of anesthesia, recognizing the parallels between induced sleep and the absence of sensation in death. Credit: Jaime Ardiles-Arce, Wikimedia Commons ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a ... that has been expanded from six to 11. The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons ...

Here, an oven in Pompeii. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain When we think about important innovations of ancient Greece, our minds immediately turn to philosophy, mathematics, architecture and ...

The results, published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, offer a fresh perspective on ancient embalming materials and the way museums conserve these ancient artefacts.

Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean Sea have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution in the environment dating to around 5,200 years ago ...