The trafficking of antiquities from ancient Greece is not new as police ... putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright ...

The Athens Area Humane Society recently acquired a statue of its own. Kelsey Fredriksen, the marketing communications manager at the AAHS, describes the statues as “larger than life.” ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created ... of color were found is the "Peplos Kore," currently in Athens' Acropolis Museum. It was discovered during large ...

Bulldogs from the “We Let the Dawgs Out" art project are seen throughout Athens, Georgia. There are over 50 statues that dot the Athens-Clarke County area. The project was started in 2003 by ...

Perhaps our greatest temple is the Parthenon at the centre of the Acropolis, in Athens. Inside was a 12-metre-high gold and ivory statue of the ... a lot about Ancient Greece from the buildings ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were ... resides in central Athens' Makrigianni district ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena ... were usually only issued in an emergency. Athens, in Attica (a province of central Greece) is the most famous of all ancient Greek ...

Despite the efforts of the unions, Tempi remained very much in the air during Wednesday’s general strike, with workers and ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to ... One of the most famous examples of a statue on which traces of color were found is the "Peplos Kore," currently in ...