The father of gastronomy is regarded as Archestratus, an ancient Greek poet and philosopher in the mid-4th century BCE ...

An ancient Greek vase on loan from the British Museum is the highlight of a new exhibition in Hull. Sirens, Women and the Sea is being shown at the Ferens Art Gallery until 5 March. The exhibition ...

Greek lawmakers have elected a former parliament speaker and leading advocate for the return of the disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British Museum as the country’s new president ...

Massive Levantine-Egyptian stone head of a pharaoh, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C. Likely from a monumental sphinx, wearing royal 'nemes' headdress ...

A deeper look into the development of ancient Greek art and sculpture through time, covering various styles, forms and ...

The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

WASHINGTON — Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...

A sculpture ... Greek god Apollo during excavations in Philippi, in northwest Greece. In August, construction workers installing underground water pipelines in a town north of Athens uncovered an ...

At Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, ...

Discoveries of ancient artifacts are relatively common in Greece, often unearthed during construction projects. A headless statue believed to be 2,000 years old has been found inside a black ...

A 2,000-year-old headless marble statue has been discovered in a rubbish bag near Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city. The 31-inch sculpture, depicting a woman in a robe, was found abandoned ...