This is exemplified in a design known as “Eight Immortals Battle Sea Monsters” that features in a New Year painting from the Qing era. Drawing from a folk tale about immortals clashing with the Dragon ...

Art by Balambal Suryanarayanan In 2021, Jorge-Rivera Herrans started sharing songs from his unfinished musical, “EPIC: The Musical,” on TikTok. Inspired by Homer’s “Odyssey,” the musical follows ...

Booking tours in Athens is a great way to explore at your own pace with skip-the-line access and an expert guide. Whether you ...

The islands also play an interesting role in Greek mythology. They were linked with two gods, Aeolus and Hephaestus, the latter of whom is said to have aided Odysseus during his arduous journey to ...

The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, ...

A 32-year-old Greek man discovered the artifact in a black ... said that the loosely folded drapery suggests that the statue is of a goddess. Regular women in that period were typically depicted ...

A marble statue of a woman, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was found abandoned in a garbage bag near the Greek city of Thessaloniki ... by a flourishing of art and culture following ...

Husain, who died in 2011 aged 95, often faced backlash for the depictions of nude Hindu gods in his paintings. The Delhi Art Gallery (DAG), which hosted the exhibition, denied any wrongdoing and ...

Thousands of pieces of art were submitted and judged, and the winners have been chosen in the 2025 CNY Scholastic Art Awards, sponsored by M&T Bank and hosted by Onondaga Community College.

Greek mythology is full of the gods’ exploits, and surprising details abound in ancient art. Greek pottery, for instance, illustrates their often bawdy activities. Further, the strange effigies of the ...

Often described as “the most Greek of all the gods,” Apollo was something of a Renaissance man. He entertained Olympus with his lyre, taught humankind the art of medicine ... despite her marriage to ...