The same force that paved the way for the Greek Golden Age sowed the seeds of its political collapse: individualism.

The Greek poet Antipater of Sidon, writing in the second century B.C., is often attributed with compiling the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

One such ancient story centers on the bronze sentry Talos. Forged by Hephaestus, the Greek god of smiths and artisans, Talos was said to have guarded the island of Crete, off the coast of Greece.

An announcement on June 9 from the Greek Ministry of Culture cites the discovery of a rare underground spring cistern dating to the 14th–13th centuries BCE, during the Mycenaean palatial period.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

A&E; Art; Met Museum returning ancient bronze thought stolen from Greek museum Feb. 24, 2025 Updated Mon., Feb. 24, 2025 at 6:55 p.m. The bronze head of a griffin from the seventh century B.C ...

Cleveland Museum of Art acquires ancient Greek bronze helmet, works by Tanning, Rembrandt van Rijn. Updated: Sep. 26, ... with a dateline of Greece or Italy circa 625–550 BCE, ...

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest repatriation marking a broader shift in ...

The bronze head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. will be returned to Greece by the Met Museum, which said it had determined that the artifact was likely stolen almost a century ago from a museum ...