A major new Met exhibit shows the breadth and richness of Hellenistic art. Prepare for gold-plated head-dresses, and two meter-tall vases. Former Travel Editor The Hellenistic period inspired awe in ...

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The glory of the Pergamon Museum on Berlin’s legendary Museum Island is the eponymous Great Altar excavated by the German engineer Carl Humann between 1878 and 1886. With the permission of the Ottoman ...

Archaeologists have uncovered and restored seven tombs belonging to Hellenistic and Roman periods in Euromos, an ancient city in southwestern Turkey. At least 25 academics and students from both ...

The modern term “Hellenistic art” refers to works produced across a vast and greatly expanded Greek-speaking world between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the foundation of the Roman ...

Introduction: characteristics of Hellenistic art -- Greek sculpture of the fourth century B.C. -- Lysippos and the early Hellenistic age -- Atticism in the late fourth and early third centuries B.C. - ...

A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art celebrates Pergamon, the stunning city that reveals a great deal about the ancient world, writes Alastair Sooke. When Alexander the Great died in ...