When was Ancient Greece? How did ancient Greece begin? The first Olympic games and new discoveries How was Greece ruled? Activities About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important ...

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created ... one would have seen a sculpture of a young archer, painted in bright colors to look as lifelike as possible.

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created ... one would have seen a sculpture of a young archer, painted in bright colors to look as lifelike as possible.

Ancient Greeks held festivals ... This bronze likeness of Apollo was found in 1959 in Piraeus, Greece. PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID COVENTRY-ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF PIRAEUS Twilight bathes the ruins ...

has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece -- New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago ...

In ancient Greece and Rome, statues not only looked beautiful—they smelled good, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study published this month in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology.

Lions often sat atop tombs in ancient Greece, where ornamental details such ... Stiftung Archäologie, Munich The painted replica of a c. 490 B.C. archer (at the Parthenon in Athens) testifies ...

Ancient Greece gave us many things, from mythology to democracy by way of the Olympics, but if I recall my (very) old primary-school project correctly, one thing Archimedes and pals never got ...