A 2,700-year-old tomb in central Greece has revealed a woman laid to rest with a bronze crown placed upside down on her head, ...
The Venus de Milo, a celebrated ancient statue found on the Greek island of Milos and displayed at the Louvre since 1821, is one of the most famous artworks in the world. Yet relatively little is ...
Archaeologists also discovered the burial of a four-year-old child in close proximity to the woman. The child was crowned with a bronze diadem adorned with small rosettes and dates to the same time ...
An ancient marble statue of a woman believed to be more than 2,000 years old was found dumped near a cluster of garbage bins in Greece, kicking off a police investigation into potential illegal ...
Eva Palmer Sikelianos was a prominent figure in the movement toward reviving ancient Greek artistic and cultural practices.
A 92-year-old Greek American donated €40,000 to her childhood village school in eastern Greece, offering a heartfelt gift for ...
According to historical sources, "women" — specifically meaning, in that time and culture, married, childbearing females — were not allowed to attend or participate in the original Olympic Games in ...
The same sources say "maidens" — a category comprising unmarried women, young and old — were allowed to attend, though they could not participate in the Games themselves. Although most historians ...