“Those are all little architectural features that are around the building and, I dare say, sometimes sisters don’t even know they’re there because we’re so used to coming in and out,” said Sister ...

When a shepherd—the only resident on the three-square-mile island of Despotikó—spotted a Byzantine coin lying in his goat pen in 2010, it was like finding an “X” on a treasure map, but the coin was ...

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...

ATHENS, Greece – Archaeologists slowly digging through a huge 2,300-year-old tomb in northern Greece have uncovered two life-sized marble female statues flanking the entrance to one of three ...

The fine white dust that shrouds much of his northern Myanmar village also covers sculptor Chin Win as he leans over a half-finished Buddha statue. "We are blessed to carve Buddha," he said at his ...

The pristine white marble of Greek and Roman statues wasn't always such a blank canvas. To highlight their colourful past, two historians are reconstructing ancient statues to convey just how vivid ...

A “remarkable” set of late 17th Century carved marble figures which represent the four seasons are expected to sell for up to £180,000 when they go for sale at auction. The life-size figures, which ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States on Friday returned to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates, found to have been illicitly removed from the ...

A video of an AI robot sculpting a marble statue has left the internet fuming, with people asking why we are not using AI to find cures for diseases. The Studio Ghibli trend took over the internet ...

A wall of sealing stones was removed to reveal the robe-covered bodies of two caryatids. Archaeologists have uncovered the expertly crafted robes of two female stone statues standing guard at the ...