An overview of Ancient Greek art, including painting, sculpture and architecture, and a look at how it changed over the years.

Successively colonised by the Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans, Sicily is packed with ancient treasures to discover. From monumental temples to mosaics of unequalled precision, each of these sites is ...

Inspired by ancient Greek temples, the exhibition incorporates the classic Doric and Ionic columns into its design. It is ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Amid the ashes of a funeral pyre, encased in burnt mud, was a papyrus scroll—the first to be found in mainland Greece ... the fragments into 26 surviving columns of text, all with their bottom ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome has long been referenced, from the temple-like façades ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.

ATHENS - Greeks bid farewell on Thursday to former prime minister Costas Simitis, a law professor and reformist, who died last week at the age of 88 and was praised for steering Greece into the ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ... shape-shifting columns said to be Aphrodite herself.