The image many have in mind of Greek sculptures—noble looking with a bit of an emptiness about the eyes—might be slightly ...

A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior ...

The movable finds from this year's excavations include unfinished marble sculptures, mainly of Aphrodite, clay heads of ...

A lion statue that was reworked to match its twin which was smashed by a car, has been declared as so ugly by locals that a bag has been placed over its head. The pair of two-tonne stone cats have ...

The heads of ancient statues found in forgotten Temple of Greek god Apollo in Frangissa ... In 2021, archaeologists from Frankfurt and Kiel/Würzburg resumed the search. Using small trenches, they ...

The remains, dated between the 6th and 2nd centuries B.C.E., show that the Punic people were genetically closest to ancient populations from Sicily and Greece, with a significant and increasing ...

From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters ...

An ancient vase depicting the death ... endowed with life by the gods are not a rarity in Greek myth. Consider, for example, Galatea, a statue of a woman sculpted by Pygmalion as art, then brought ...

The Antikythera mechanism, a mysterious ancient Greek device that is often called the world’s first computer, may not have functioned at all, according to a simulation of its workings.

Minecraft's 1.19 Wild Update introduced the Ancient City, a hidden structure within the Deep Dark biome, offering valuable loot but guarded by the Warden. Locating it requires descending below Y ...

In ancient Greece, education wasn’t limited to the mind — it included the body as well. Physical fitness and scholarly pursuits went hand-in-hand, a principle reflected in the number of gymnasiums ...

Standing amid the rubble of a historic temple in Mandalay's ancient city of Inwa, a local guide and resident said on Sunday (April 6) that the 7.7 magnitude earthquake that struck Myanmar just ...