The lost, colorful beauty of an iconic set of ancient Greek sculptures has been revealed by a scientific study. The latest research into the Parthenon Sculptures sheds new light on the original ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

What perfect timing! There is no better way to honor the great Olympic games than by spending some time with the game’s founding fathers: the ancient Greeks. Aside from the Olympics, the ancient ...

An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds. The dig, which ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from the ...

Ancient Greeks were ahead of the curve in a lot of ways—including, it seems, issues of accessibility. A new archaeological study has found that stone ramps on some ancient buildings were likely built ...

The Dallas Museum of Art recently opened a show titled, The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece in Dallas, Texas. A model of Olympia is on display at the DMA on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. The Dallas Museum ...

What did ancient Greeks wear in the winter? A natural question as all statues of Greeks in antiquity depict them dressed in ...