Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware.

An ancient site guard in northern Greece was charged with participating in a smuggling ring selling artefacts abroad. Over 50 ...

The history and techniques of Pankration, an ancient Greek martial art, have had a significant impact on modern mixed martial ...

The only art he knew about were the towering murals of Black heroes ... The vases from antiquity are displayed behind glass barriers. While an ancient Greek vase might show young men walking through ...

The Hirschfeld Krater, Ancient Greece, mid-8th century BC, from the late Geometric period, depicting ekphora, the act of carrying a body to its grave. National Archaeological Museum, Athens. Credit: ...

The Glencairn Museum in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, has voluntarily returned to Greece an ancient Attic black-figure lekythos, a small vessel traditionally used for storing oil and often placed in ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a ... that has been expanded from six to 11. The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons ...

An ancient Attic black-figure lekythos was ceremonially repatriated to Greece in an event held at the Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C. The ceremony was attended by the Greek Minister of ...

Calligraphy was once China’s highest art form—then the Communist Party tried to erase it. Now, under Xi Jinping, it’s making a comeback. At Sotheby’s in Hong Kong, a rare copy of the ...

Ancient Greek art and culture have become cornerstones of ... This manifested in filling entire surfaces with intricate details or patterns. Vases, for the most part, were thus completely covered ...