Ancient Greeks placed great emphasis on healthy skin, and developed many useful and largely natural beauty tips.

Thanks to Hollywood, dinosaurs are very much back in style. The success of the "Jurassic Park" films has created much interest and curiosity in the prehistoric world of these massive creatures. The ...

Researchers have long speculated about the purpose and meaning of pointy “head cones” depicted in Egyptian art. Now they’ve ...

Israel loaned ancient antiquities to the US in 2019 on the condition they be returned within weeks. But almost four years later, they're "stuck" at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence, per Haaretz.

Evidence of a vast harbour, alongside more than 700 kilograms of Late Roman amphora fragments, has been uncovered during ...

Color perception is relative, optically and culturally. Take, for instance, the shade of Homer’s wine-dark sea: It depends on who is tossing about upon it, where, and when. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture ...

The suggestion that ancient Greeks reached America before Columbus may seem far-fetched, but certain researchers think ...

Includes pictures *Profiles Palmyra's origins, its relationship with Rome, its culture, and more *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "At the ...

An NYU emeritus professor of history, sociology and comparative literature, Cantor does for antiquity what he did for medieval times in his acclaimed The Civilization of the Middle Ages. With his ...

I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...

Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins, a museum of ancient antiquities opened in 2011, has become an unlikely attraction in the South of France, The New York Times reports. Located in the hills above ...

The community invited to view and discuss a free display of art and artifacts from the Perry Foundation Collections and Loans. “The Development of Ancient Human Skills” will take place from 3 to 7 p.m ...