The ruins of Teos (Greek: Τέως), an ancient Greek city on Turkey’s western coast, have long remained untouched by modern construction, with...

The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later sold on the art market.

Archaeologists have unearthed a small white marble statue of Hercules from ancient Rome in Montaione, a municipality in the province of Florence,...

A team of Egyptian and French archaeologists has uncovered a collection of ancient jewelry and amulets at the Karnak temple complex in Egypt shedding...

Archaeologists in Turkey have uncovered a grand Greco-Roman residential complex, dubbed the “Mosaic House,” in the ancient city of Pergamon, which...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art returned an ancient bronze griffin’s head to Greece after determining that the 7th-century BC artifact was stolen...

Five times a day, approximately one-fourth of the world's population turns toward Mecca to bow their heads in prayer. The Kaaba at the center of...

A marble statue of Hermes, the messenger of Zeus in ancient Greek mythology, along with statue fragments of ancient Greek deities Eros, Aphrodite,...

The alleged “Greekness” of the Terracotta Army went viral, but archaeologists in China were skeptical of the influence of Greek art.

Archaeologists have uncovered a little-known aspect of ancient art: Greek and Roman statues were not just painted and adorned but also perfumed. A...