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

Greece's Ministry of Culture announced that an ancient sculpture workshop was discovered during excavations on the island of ...

Archaeologists have been excavating at the site of Floga in Paroikía, on the Cycladic island of Paros in Greece, where ...

The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise.

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

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once painted with rich colors. But now, a new study has revealed that some were scented as well.

Systematic excavations since the mid-1980s have revealed new findings regarding the dating and function of the ancient ...

Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble ... To the Greeks, the marriage of color and form had deeper connotations, suggests Harvard art historian ...

Among the recovered items were 15 ancient oil lamps, 17 figurines or fragments, several ceramic vessels, and a marble sculpture believed to depict a child’s head. All are thought to date from various ...