Eros, the ancient Greek god of love, is captured peacefully asleep in this exquisite sculpture exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum.

The Rolls Royce emblem, dubbed the Spirit of Ecstasy, draws heavily from the Nike of Samothrace, a Hellenistic masterpiece ...

The major objective of the publications programme of the British School at Athens is to publish work by those conducting research using its facilities. The Annual therefore includes articles of short ...

A remarkable archaeological discovery has been made near the site of the ancient city of Tenea in the municipality of Corinth, Greece. The Greek Ministry of Culture recently announced the unearthing ...

The temporary structures will return next month—but in the meantime, visitors will enjoy rare unobstructed views of the ancient hilltop temple in Athens Cool Finds The marble sculpture, discovered at ...

The jewels stolen during the Louvre heist have been given an estimated value of €88m, French prosecutors claim. Multiple ...

A gang of chainsaw-wielding thieves have broken into France's iconic Louvre museum, stealing "priceless" Napoleon-era ...

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Archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Gortyna on the Greek island of Crete have made an unusual discovery: a life-size statue depicting a pig. The rare find, uncovered during July and August ...

In 2009, Terry Herbert, an unemployed metal detectorist in Staffordshire, England, swept his detector over a freshly plowed ...

In its heyday, streams of daylight would have shone through its magnificent stained glass windows. That was until Fountains Abbey, in Ripon, North Yorkshire, became one of the many victims of Henry ...

An interdisciplinary team of archaeologists and topographers from the University of Rome “La Sapienza,” in close ...