It is the latter, a painting of a young male diver, which is most famous. Thought to date to roughly 500-470BC, these frescoes are the only Greek wall paintings from the period to survive in their ...

Greece's National Gallery said a Greek lawmaker attacked four paintings in an exhibition at the museum in Athens, including one he had previously criticized as offensive on religious grounds.

The Minoans were the first great Greek civilisation between 2200BC ... and they built glorious palaces decorated with beautiful wall paintings. Image caption, Artwork of a bull on a wall in ...