Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Greece’s timeless art: Golden Age temples, alluring Venuses, and exuberant Winged Victory. Ancient Greece laid the foundations of Western art. Traveling from its sun-splashed isles to the rugged ...

The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from the ...

After the latest dig season, archaeologists announced a wealth of treasure surfaced from the popular tourist destination, ...

Researchers have known for many years that there was more to ancient Greek and Roman statues than the plain white marble you typically see in museums. A few years ago, museum visitors in New York City ...

Featuring works from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean ...

Until just recently, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Greco-Roman galleries were greeted by an enormous funerary vase, a creation of the ninth-century B.C., depicting in somber ocher and ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “I fear the Greeks even when they’re bringing gifts,” a Trojan priest ...

Tosti-Croce arrived in Valparaíso, Chile, in 1950 from Genoa by way of Buenos Aires at the age of two and a half, along with ...

Greece is opening up ancient sites for events aimed at combining cultural heritage with the Greek culinary tradition.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. NORTH BENNINGTON — Randolyn Zinn has loved ancient Greek theater and mythology for as long as she can remember. Whether in sober dramas or lively ...