Joyful Minoan frescoes are a testament to the sophistication of that early culture. The Minoans thrived on the Greek isle of Crete from 2000 to 1100 BC. The remains of their palace and the joyful ...

Archaeologists excavating a Minoan settlement have found the discarded remains of Hexaplex trunculus shells, used in the production of the color purple—as well as gold jewelry and copper vases. The ...

And Nicholas Spanos and his wife, organisers of the pavilion, are here with their team to exclusively promote art from Greece, through its various fascinating phases of evolution. The façade that is a ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

Archaeologists are documenting artifacts contained within their amazing 2015 find, the tomb of the Griffin Warrior in Greece. But the 3,500-year-old treasures include their most stunning historical ...

'In case you were thinking it’s a load of bull…” says one of our guides pointing up above the ruins of Minoan Knossos at a brightly painted bull fresco behind rich red and black columns, “…it is.” The ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, ...

What’s the ancient equivalent of today’s iconic plastic red Solo cup, beloved at frat parties and picnics alike? It might be this disposable cup used to drink wine at feasts 3,500 years ago, which ...

The civilization made famous by the myth of the Minotaur was as warlike as their bull-headed mascot, new research suggests. The ancient people of Crete, also known as Minoan, were once thought to be a ...

It took more than a year to wipe the limestone crust off a 1.4-inch-long stone found in an ancient tomb in Greece, but it would have been time well spent even if it took twice as long — because when ...