In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, ...

This summer, The Met’s Temple of Dendur hosts 17 rare Alberto Giacometti sculptures in a new exhibition exploring the ...

For decades, Britain and Greece were able to differ, largely politely, over the world’s toughest cultural heritage dispute: What’s the right place for some of the finest ancient Greek sculptures ever ...

From mysterious ruins to jaw-dropping architecture, these archaeological gems are like time machines in stone.

For centuries, scientists have known that the white marble statues from ancient Greece and Rome were once painted with rich ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed. "A white marble statue was ...

A reconstruction of a statue of a torso in armor from the Athenian Acropolis is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition “Chroma,” which features ...

The remains of a sunken city were pulled from the waters at Abu Qir bay in Alexandria on August 21, 2025. (photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP via Getty Images) Pieces of limestone buildings, marble and ...