An unexpected visitor at the Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (8 March 2023), is commencing a new series of exhibitions titled “Temporary and unexpected visitors”, including artwork from other world museums, that the Acropolis Museum will host periodically, either in relation to a celebratory event, or unexpectedly, thus enriching visitors’…

Ten years of warfare, countless heroes killed, and Troy laid to waste. Follow the epic tale of the Trojan War as told through art. The marriage of Peleus, grandson of Zeus, to Thetis, daughter of the sea god Nereus, was a major event on Mount Olympus. The happy couple invited every major and minor deity to the ceremony, with the understandable exception of Eris, the goddess of discord. Furious at…

Ten years of warfare, countless heroes killed, and Troy laid to waste. Follow the epic tale of the Trojan War as told through art. The…

Napoleon once said that ‘there are only two powers in the world, the sword and the spirit’ and that ‘in the long run the sword will always…

The huge port city of Marseille in southern France was founded by Greeks back in 600 BC when the first immigrants arrived in the area and…

Dionysus is an Ancient Greek god and part of the Roman pantheon. He was known as Bacchus to the Romans and was connected with the Italian…

Greece is a surprisingly mountainous country. While some of the mountains are world-famous, especially Olympus, home of the ancient gods,…

The Rotunda, built by Roman emperor Galerius in 306 AD, is the oldest of Thessaloniki’s churches and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was…

Ramayana, India’s great epic poem, mentions in various chapters the Greeks. This implies that Greeks were actually present in what is…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Undoubtedly, ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses were highly significant in the ancient city of Aizanoi.…

MAINZ, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the University of Mainz, researchers from the Austrian Archaeological Institute,…

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - The ancient Greek historian Strabo referred to the presence of an important shrine located on the west…

The ancient amphitheater in the Ancient Greek city of Laodicea, located in the ancient Greek area of Phrygia, has been restored. The…

Located on the slopes of the Acropolis, The Theater of Dionysus is one of the oldest Greek theaters in the world, and it is famous for…

Built upon the tombs of ancient kings, this was once the most sacred building on the acropolis. Known today for its famous porch of the…

An unexpected visitor at the Acropolis Museum The Acropolis Museum, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day (8 March 2023), is commencing a new series of exhibitions titled “Temporary and unexpected visitors”, including artwork from other world museums, that the Acropolis Museum will host periodically, either in relation to a celebratory event, or unexpectedly, thus enriching visitors’…

The National Archaeological Museum of Athens, one of the most important museums in the world devoted to ancient Greek art, will be expanded and revamped. The Ministry of Culture announced on Monday the winning entry for the New National Archaeological Museum selected by an international committee. The winning design belongs to the architectural offices of David Chipperfield Architects and…

Thessaly having been systematically inhabited throughout the Neolithic period (6800-3300 BC), with numerous settlements already in the Middle Neolithic period (5800-5300 BC), offers us a rich panorama of clay figurines depicting humans. In the permanent exhibition of the National Archaeological Museum a series of Thessalian figurines is on display[1], where the fat female figures prevail, indeed…

For many centuries, figurines were made of fired clay in ancient Greece and beyond. Until recently, researchers regarded these clay figures as cheap, mass-produced goods of no great significance because of the material used to make them and their small size. And yet, these colourfully painted figures possessed the most startling, lifelike appearance. Today, however, it has been revealed that they…

The Parthenon Marbles, currently held at the British Museum, are by far the most famous of all the ancient Greek works of art displayed in museums outside the country and are surely the most controversial. But many other equally magnificent pieces of Greek art are displayed in various museums around the world, and sometimes these priceless treasures are overshadowed by our focus on the lost…

Constructed in 1889, this museum is one of the best archaeological museums in the world, with some famous and unique artifacts and sculptures from various locations across the ancient Greek world. The museum has over 50 rooms on multiple floors, so there are a lot of things to see here.Join us as we explore History Victorums’ top 21 things to see a the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

A funerary stele dated to the 4th century BC that was returned to Greece by British authorities was revealed to the public at the Epigraphical Museum in Athens on Tuesday. The stele’s provenance is lost because it was the product of smuggling. But its stylistic details and the white, fine-grained Pentelic marble it is made of indicate it was made in Attica. It is 87.5 cm tall, 37 cm wide, and 10…

One of the most enduring art forms from ancient Greece is that of theater. Greek tragedies and comedies are a touchstone for understanding ancient Greece’s culture — from Euripedes to Sophocoles — and their written forms are still widely read and studied to this day. But theater is first and foremost an art of entertainment, and the aesthetic spectacle involved in ancient Greek plays was of…