Helen of Troy is one of the most prominent figures of ancient Greek mythology, and her birth is nothing short of a miracle.

Greece opens the royal collections of Tatoi Palace online, giving public access to 70,000 artifacts that reveal a century of ...

Greece’s prime minister hinted in an interview about a possible solution to the longstanding and bitter conflict with England over the Parthenon Marbles, iconic artifacts that were removed from Athens ...

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has promised to supply the British Museum with rotating exhibitions of Hellenic treasures in exchange for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. The remarks from ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the ...

Before traveling to Greece over the summer to study abroad, Shaylyn Sprague already had an idea in mind for her final project. She was interested in Circe, a goddess in Greek mythology who Sprague ...

Sakis Kehayioglou, a lawyer acting for the accused, said he had shown “real remorse” for his actions, The Guardian reported. The heist inside Athens National Gallery in 2012 saw the Picasso painting ...

Some of the artefacts were seized from the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of ongoing investigations into the activities ...