Even though his works have been lost in time, Lasus is remembered as an innovator and a revolutionary artistic figure. He is believed to be one of the main personalities who transformed the dithyramb, ...

New Zealand observes Matariki, the Māori New Year, as a public holiday. Celebrations include dawn ceremonies and cultural ...

Oztaskin also highlighted the discovery of large storage jars (pithoi) in the civilian settlement zone. Artifacts from the ...

Buddhism encountered a fascinating fusion with Greek culture in ancient times. Why did this Eastern religion adopt a Greek ...

Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

Statue of a Resting Goat. Body: late 1st century, Roman, Imperial period. Head attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). (Lorenzo De Masi/Torlonia Collection, Rome/Torlonia Foundation ...

New discoveries related to works of art in ancient Greece and Rome continue to be unearthed. ... Dating back to the Archaic period about 530 B.C., ...

Art & Exhibitions What Was Life Like For Ancient Greek Women? A New Exhibition Sheds Some Light. A new exhibition of 180 artworks and antiquities reveals gems of Cycladic art featuring goddesses ...

A visitor views the "Classical and Glory" Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture Arts exhibition in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on Jan 1. WEI LIANG/CHINA NEWS SERVICE TAIYUAN — "To the glory that was ...

That was roughly when the city states emerged in ancient Greece, which had ushered in a period of social and cultural prosperity for more than 600 years — from c.8th century to c.2nd century.

In approximately 370BC, Socrates classed “possession” by the muses as a form of divine madness like drunkenness, eroticism or dreaming: “He who, having no touch of the muses’ madness in ...