Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch statue of Hercules missing its head, ...

For hundreds of years experts have been trying to find answers as to how the great Minoan civilization of Crete came to an ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

As far back as the 8th century B.C.E., the city of Corinth served as the beating heart of the Mediterranean’s commerce. Lechaion, its sea port, was at the very core of its success. A new study ...

The protagonist for Irish writer James Joyce’s modernist novel ‘Ulysses’ (1922), was allegedly inspired by a Jewish painter and writer from the northeastern Italian city of Trieste. In fact, Joyce ...

Over on Via Dante Alighieri, stop off to people watch in the historic literary coffee house Caffè Stella Polare, or venture to the Art Nouveau ... town and a Bronze-Age Mycenaean settlement ...

Greece, one of the world’s oldest civilizations, traces its history back to at least 7000 BCE, when Neolithic settlements ...

a dazzling collection that includes Cycladic and Minoan art as well as Mycenaean art, including the so-called "Mask of Agamemnon," which any classics PhD or history buff will deem "extremely cool." ...

When I studied art, I was curious about, how does art begin?” The search sent her to the Mediterranean, to learn about the Minoans and Mycenaeans. “What kept me going,” she said, “was a love of art.

Among the returned items is a Mycenaean votive figurine dating back to 1300-1200 BC ... with an estimated worth of $500,000. Holly Marie Miller, an art historian from the University of Maryland, ...

Hercules was sent to Crete by King Eurystheus to capture the bull as his seventh labor, and Hercules wrestled the bull to the ground and returned it to the king in Mycenae ... Cretan Bull are somewhat ...