Ancient Greek vases, Etruscan artefacts and Roman relics sit alongside Michael Johnson’s golden shoes and Usain Bolt’s racing ...

The Lelantine War may have been one of the only wars in ancient Greece to involve multiple cities, but did it really happen?

In ancient Greece, music education was as important as philosophy in cultivating young people's souls, perceiving both ...

WHEN the august Winter Show opened in New York on Jan 23, it was filled with booths showcasing the typical tumble of antique ...

Books & the Arts / In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ...

Dreaming of Mediterranean vibes? It can be as simple as adding a plant — or as bold as redoing your backsplash. Here's how to bring in that sun-soaked style.

A magnificent dancer, star of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, choreographer of Afternoon of a Faun (L’Après-midi d’un faune) and The Rite of Spring (Le Sacre du Printemps), ballets that were both ...

Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to stand face to face with a real Egyptian mummy without ever leaving Georgia? At the Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta, that unforgettable moment is ...

A growing set of structured-light scans and photogrammetry models is showing extreme precision in hard-stone Egyptian vases—down to tiny deviations that don’t match the “simple hand tools” story.

It's time to revisit the ancient Egyptian Vase Scan Project - a lot has happened in 2024, and even more is planned for 2025. These tiny, ancient, amazing artifacts are changing history. Scans and ...

Chalcolithic cornets are conical ceramic vessels produced exclusively during the Chalcolithic period, recovered in abundance at some archaeological sites but absent at others. Their function has long ...

A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right) with red lines painted below her eyes and a female attendant (above left) with a light patch around her mouth ...