Legend has it that when the Statue of Zeus was completed, the king of the gods announced his approval via a lightning bolt.

Nearly 60 works from the legendary Torlonia Collection, hidden for decades, showcase the splendor of ancient Rome at the ...

French photographer and draughtsman Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey took the first picture of the Acropolis of Athens in ...

Restored 700-year-old Byzantine church in Sinop, Turkey unveils wall paintings, linking to Greek Orthodox heritage.

Géricault ripped his subject from the headlines, basing the work on a scandal that had recently roiled France.

RULER (Relative Universal LLM-Elicited Rewards) eliminates the need for hand-crafted reward functions by using an LLM-as-judge to automatically score agent trajectories. Simply define your task in the ...

For many people, Greek mythology begins and ends with a few familiar faces. The musclebound hero--known as Hercules or ...

The timeline for lens-enhanced masterpieces gets pushed back 35 centuries. In the process, the little bombshell also upends the timeline for ancient Greek art. Idealized depictions of the naturalistic ...

The ancient Greek kingdom of Pylos is nowhere near as familiar in today’s popular consciousness as city-states with names like Corinth or Thebes, but it did get a shout-out from Homer in both the ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The 2017 reveal of a tiny but spectacular carved stone, just 1.3 inches wide, upended our understanding of Greek ...

It’s a staple of the Mediterranean diet for good reason. It’s a staple of the Mediterranean diet for good reason. Credit...Suzanne Saroff for The New York Times Supported by By Caroline Hopkins ...

As we head into the final quarter of 2025, discussions for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures from the British Museum to Greece continue apace, with some observers optimistic that 2026 may be the ...