Much like similar derogatory titles “siren” and “fury”, the term “harpy” is derived from a group of monstrous female figures ...

When you stand in this place, you feel the energy and the beauty of the view, which motivates you to do something for the ...

Or so one would think, looking at the current art scene. But a new and fascinating archeological finding shows that this has ...

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

Excavations at a necropolis outside of Liternum, near modern-day Naples, have found two ornate funerary enclosures.

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

A Mycenaean death mask. Credit: Sharon Mollerus / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 2.0 Ancient Greek history is one of the most intensely studied periods of human history, and yet a multitude of mysteries ...

The Temple of Athena Polias in Priene, an ancient Greek city at the base of Mycale’s escarpment, the battleground where Greeks and Persians clashed in history. Credit: Flickr / Egisto Sani CC BY-NC-SA ...

April 2, 2025 • A new White House executive order says the exhibition is an example of how the Smithsonian portrays "American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive." ...