One of the wonders of the ancient world, the Temple of Artemis stood for millennia, wearing natural and manmade disasters. A ...

Until the present century, it was often a rather risky business for an American artist to do a nude. When the painter John Vanderlyn exhibited an inoffensive Ariadne in New York in 1815, his ...

The Met Museum returned an ancient cup, assembled from fragments, to Italy in 2022 after investigators found it had been ...

Antonis Bartsiokas's assertions have been met with pushback from Greek archaeologists. In life, Alexander the Great stamped ...

President Theodore Roosevelt was inspired by the artistic merit of ancient coins and sought to change the look of American coinage. In 1905 he asked famous sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens to create ...

The Elgin marbles at the British Museum remain a point of contention between the UK and Greece, with debates over ownership ...

Zara began drawing to bring the characters in her head to life, and is hugely inspired by games, horror and fantasy. She ...

Archaeologists at Pompeii have unearthed a new residence decorated with a series of frescoes including some erotic scenes.

The artwork, which depicts the Greek goddess Ariadne, was created to show a sculpture in transit while wrapped in a dust sheet and tied with ropes. Concerns were first raised over the sculpture by ...

As the summer tourists go home, the temps go down just in time for a busy schedule of fall festivals and events. Here are some of the biggies.