In ancient Greece people enjoyed chilled wine at social gatherings, using specially designed cooling pots called psykter.

These sorts of scenes are quite common in ancient Greek art, but unusual in the context of a tomb.The image of the diver on the ceiling is particularly unusual as it’s a rare subject matter in ...

A rare set of nearly life-sized paintings were dug up in Pompeii over the last few weeks, offering clues about rituals ...

The fresco, renowned as the largest and most important work of classical antiquity ... foot hunters has been an emblem of monumental Greek painting, from the 4th century BCE.

In the 900 years between those notable moments, Ancient Greek culture shaped contemporary poetry, democracy, philosophy, art, theater, and language. Take Greek mythology, for example: those ...