After decades of searching, researchers in Turkiye have fully mapped out Alexander the Great's critical Battle of Granicus.

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Archaeologists in Bulgaria uncovered a nearly 7-foot statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes during a dig this week.

In the third part of its series classical cultures, the Getty Museum looks at Thrace, a territory of tribes that sat between ...

A centuries-old Buddhist model of the universe has new meaning for the shortest of days and longest of worries.

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London (CNN) — For those unable to visit the Tokyo National Museum, where Iwasa Matabei’s famous 17th-century epic gold leaf painting “Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu” currently hangs ...

For those unable to visit the Tokyo National Museum, where Iwasa Matabei’s famous 17th-century epic gold leaf painting “Rakuchu Rakugai Zu Byobu” currently hangs, the Gagosian gallery in ...