Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

Statues of Orestes and Pylades, two important figures of ancient Greek mythology. Credit: Disdero, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 The story of Orestes has ... leaving an indelible mark on Western ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Greek police officers walk outside the National Gallery, as Nikolaos Papadopoulos, member of parliament of ...

View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers have discovered what may be the world’s oldest 3D map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...

I first heard Himmat Shah saying this to artist Pooja Iranna as I followed them around during Shah’s retrospective, “Hammer of the Square,” at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA ... Lothal—an ancient ...

The ancient city of Teos sits on the western coast ... it was a thriving center of Hellenistic and Roman art, culture, and trade. Few people have inhabited the area since the third century CE ...

Mantha Zarmakoupi, a classical archaeologist and architectural historian, has spent the past four summers excavating the remains of an ancient city council building in Teos. Teos was an ancient Greek ...

Art historian Luckas Nickel had speculated that a Greek sculptor may have visited China to ... Credit:Critius /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 This mirage of an ancient cultural global influence has an ...