Graffiti art has a long and storied history that stretches back to ancient civilizations, evolving from simple inscriptions ...

A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Sticks found in a cave that date back 12,000 years and other archaeological evidence show how humans have long viewed the ...

In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

The figure of Maria Callas, the Greek opera legend, has been adorning Venice through a goddess-like sculpture made by a Greek ...

Zeus raped the mortal Spartan queen Leda in the form of a swan, a myth that became a source of inspiration for Renaissance art. And when he became besotted ... giving new meaning to his status in ...

By Holland Cotter The Metropolitan Museum of Art is, in these darkest days of midwinter, one of the city’s spiritual hot spots, thanks to the harmonic convergence of two outstanding and very ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in ... An example, now housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was created for a priest named Amenhotep. The flask contains ...

Director Christopher Nolan's next movie has officially been revealed as The Odyssey, an adaptation of Homer's ancient Greek poem chronicling Odysseus's decade-long journey home following the Trojan ...

The holiday's popularity has surged in modern times, but its origins date back to the turbulent centuries following the death of Alexander the Great, the ancient ... spread of Greek art ...