Over the last five centuries, all of these names have been applied to the enigmatic sculpture that stands at the center of ...

Antigone” gave us the original “bad girl,” but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles’ ideas ...

Researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest known cave art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Indonesia. The unusual, ...

The real reason why ancient statues always seem to be naked has finally been uncovered ...

The only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms was unveiled in Athens.

Director Fokion Bogris was in his early 20s when he first met legendary Greek character actor Kostas Stefanakis. Through their unlikely friendship, the budding director got to dive headfirst into — ...

St. Peter’s Basilica is arguably the most famous Christian worship space in the world. It is a massive church in the style of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent ...

A visitor views the "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts exhibition in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Jan 1. WEI LIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE TAIYUAN — "To the glory that was Greece ...

In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Sir William Gell (British, 1774–1836), The Removal ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city with as much culture off the silver screen as on it. Credit...Clockwise from left: Getty Museum; Fowler Museum; the Huntington Library, ...

Every cuisine is built on generations of tradition. This history impacts every element of the food we eat: the dishes, the techniques, and, of course, the ingredients. For Greek chef, author, ...

For more than a century, Hollywood has shaped our collective image of ancient Greek armor. Whether depicting the fall of Troy, Odysseus' journey or the rise of Alexander the Great, movies often ...