While the modern Olympic games have been underway in Paris, an ancient Olympian has been unearthed thousands of miles away. A marble bust of Zeus — the Greek god of the sky and thunder, who was ...

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their main square.

Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...

Goodwill and other thrift stores are chock full of hidden treasures. Sometimes, it’s a simple concert t-shirt that has a specific meaning to the purchaser. Other times, it’s stumbling onto a seriously ...

Greek historians like Herodotus are famous for writing down some of the first-ever Western historical records and waxing poetic about the skirmishes and wars waged throughout Ancient Greece. But just ...

Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — In a $35 purchase at an Austin Goodwill Store nearly five years ago, resident Laura Young helped discover a lost piece of ancient Roman artwork. ICYMI: How did an ancient Roman bust ...

The largest coins in the collection are two bronze Roman sestertii from the first decades of the Common Era. One depicts ...

From its time in Germany during World War II to the shelves of a Texas Goodwill, a 2,000-year-old Roman bust is making its way back home. In 2018, Laura Young purchased the bust for just $34.99 at an ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AUSTIN (KXAN) – With her $35 purchase at a ...