Princes of Ancient Greece' at the Getty Villa gives the first look outside Europe at the ancient Greek Griffin Warrior, whose ...

Very, very few people have been allowed into the Chauvet cave in Southeastern France since it was discovered in 1994 and found to contain ancient cave paintings dating back more than 30,000 years.

On Tuesday, September 2, Greece’s Parliament passed a controversial new migration and asylum law, after a tense debate marked by strong opposition and a series of last-minute changes. The legislation, ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...

A groundbreaking study has redefined the significance of one of Europe’s most important human fossils—the Petralona cranium—first unearthed in northern Greece more than 60 years ago. Using advanced ...

Researchers from France, China, the UK, and Greece revealed that the Petralona cranium is at least 286,000 years old, placing it firmly in the Middle Pleistocene era. A new scientific study has shed ...

Phryne at the Festival of Poseidon in Eleusis, a large-scale 1889 history painting by Polish-Russian artist Henryk Siemiradzki, is held in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. Credit: ...

Researchers recently used near-infrared photography to get a detailed look at ancient artwork showing scenes of wild animals tangled in a fight. But these weren’t paintings on a cave wall. They were ...