Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of ...
The statue of Antinous was discovered by a team of French archaeologists who in 1891 excavated the ancient site of Delphi.
A chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in designer Omar Chakil's Transcendence ...
When you stand in this place, you feel the energy and the beauty of the view, which motivates you to do something for the ...
The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...
Two life-sized statues have been unearthed in Pompeii, including a bejewelled priestess of the ancient goddess Ceres.
Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...
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 ...
The Rod of Asclepius is a striking emblem: a simple staff with a lone snake coiled around it, universally acknowledged as a symbol of medicine and healing.
A team of archaeologists in Iraq, led by Sebastian Rey, the British Museum’s curator of ancient Mesopotamia ... Rey tells The Art Newspaper, was “an extremely important period in Mesopotamian ...