ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen ...
An ancient site guard in northern Greece was charged with participating in a smuggling ring selling artefacts abroad. Over 50 ...
Walking into the ruins of an ancient tomb in southern Greece, archaeologists inadvertently joined a centuries-long tradition.
In southern Greece, a monumental ancient tomb was discovered to have been used as a burial site for centuries before […] ...
Two views of the ancient tomb’s corridor. Photo from Greece’s Ministry of Culture ... the 2,400-year-old tomb including coins (1), metal items (2, 4, 5), bread crumbs (3) and glass beads ...
The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ideological purposes. But in reality, ancient works of art were colorful, and ...
A special repatriation ceremony held on Tuesday (25 February), attended by Greece’s Minister ... marked the return of eleven ancient Greek pieces. The Greek items recovered by the Manhattan ...
At a ceremony this week, Greece’s culture ... Jeffries Staff Contributor Items like this bronze griffin head were often used to adorn ceremonial cauldrons in ancient Greek sanctuaries.
By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a ... that has been expanded from six to 11. The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons ...
In 2022, Stern gifted his collection of ancient Cycladic art to Greece, and under the terms ... collectively valued at nearly $1m. One of the items, an elaborately carved bas-relief grave panel ...