Lychnite is a snow-white, fine-grained marble with a unique permeability to light, which gave an inimitable plasticity to sculptures and was therefore used only in statuary. This had enchanted the ...

It dates to around 490 BC, making it one of the latest examples of the kouros type of statue, and is made of Parian marble. Public Domain Excavations on Anafi in the first part of the 19th century ...

Perhaps this statue once belonged to Polybius’s famous father. A marble statuette of Venus ... carved glass cameo plaques of Bacchus (Dionysus) and Ariadne; the first shows a distinctly epicene ...

A video of an AI robot sculpting a marble statue has left the internet fuming, with people asking why we are not using AI to find cures for diseases. The Studio Ghibli trend took over the internet ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered ... In February, paintings depicting Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, were discovered. The images were painted on the walls of a large ...

An inscription found in the city reveals that Timogenes, an individual from the city, was honored by the "Artists of Dionysus" for financing plays. This highlights the deep connection between Teos and ...

Archaeologists say the marble funerary statues of a toga-clad man and a woman shed new light on the power held by priestesses in the ancient city, which was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted ...

PARIS (AP) — Torches from the Paris Olympics and the crown and wreath of Dionysus worn by singer Philippe Katerine during the opening ceremony are up for auction. Profits from the sale will go ...