Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have arrested six people allegedly involved in an antiquities smuggling operation ...

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Six individuals were arrested on Crete for allegedly running an antiquities smuggling ring. The group attempted to sell a ...

A cache of ancient Greek artifacts and a suspected smuggling ring have been uncovered in Crete, leading to six arrests. The ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might seem at first blush to be a bit stodgy," said Kyle MacMillan in the Chicago Sun-Times. But the 58 ancient works that constitute "Myth and Marble" are ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Greece welcomed the repatriation of three ancient sculpture fragments from the Parthenon—a horse and two male ...

Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann / Stiftung Archäologie The Greeks ... scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we ...

These words are not often used to describe marble. Instead, the history-steeped material, long immortalised in ancient temples and monuments ... aiming to shift perceptions of this elemental Greek ...