Faces and Figures from Antiquity - Gods, Warriors and Emperors - Headline TimeLine’s 3 March Antiquities & Ancient Art Auction ...
One of the famous ancient Greek Riace Bronzes was found to have had its teeth designed following the mathematical value of ...
Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...
In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...
Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...
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 ...
A number of scientific recreations will be displayed alongside pieces from the Met's collection. A recreation of the Met's Archaic-period Sphinx finial—which once crowned a grave stele in the Museum's ...
A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...
“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...
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 ...
Archaeologists in Greece have discovered an ancient sculptor's workshop which may provide a rare glimpse into what daily life was like during the Hellenistic period. Teams found the 3,000-year-old ...
The publication of “Chroma” represents an important shift by museums toward recognizing polychromy and its entanglement with ...