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 ...
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.
Antiques Roadshow has conditioned us to believe that every bit of slightly decent-looking thrift shop or yard sale junk is actually a fortune just waiting to be claimed. This isn’t usually the case, ...
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 ...
Now at the Kimbell Art Museum, this exhibition is the first in the U.S. to display works from a vast, vital Italian ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...
A centuries-old Roman marble bust believed to depict an enemy of Julius Caesar, which may have been looted by an American soldier stationed in Germany after World War II, went on display at the San ...
When Laura Young first spotted “Dennis Reynolds,” a 52-pound marble bust she named after a character in the TV series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” in an Austin Goodwill, the sculpture had a ...
Currently on view at the San Antonio Museum of Art, the sculpture will be returned to the Pompejanum in Germany later this year. Portrait of a man, Roman, circa late 1st century B.C. or early 1st ...