In a city buried under feet of ash and debris from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, archaeologists have announced ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Antikythera Shipwreck treasures reunite at Greece’s National Archaeological Museum with Minoan exhibits in a major expansion.

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

Frescoes are a unique aspect of Crete’s artistic landscape, an often-overlooked part of Byzantine and post-Byzantine art. Frescoes represent the work of painting on plastered walls, combining ...

A downright bacchanalian frieze has just been unearthed in Pompeii, one so large it spans three walls of a massive banquet room. Known as a “megalography,” a Greek term for grand painting, the ...

A rare and monumental cycle of frescoes depicting a procession of Bacchus, the god of wine, has been discovered in a banquet hall in Pompeii, the famous archaeological site near Naples, it was ...

Vivid frescoes depict the followers of Dionysus. Archaeologists in Pompeii have unearthed a large fresco cycle that sheds new light on religious rituals in the ancient city, the site said on Wednesday ...

Situated directly across from the equally advanced Minoan Crete and the grandeur ... Women” at the Museum of Cycladic Art. This particular section of the fresco, featuring three women, reveals ...

Credit Greek Reporter The glorious Palace of Knossos, the largest of all Minoan palaces on the island of Crete and ... Evans also ordered the reconstruction of walls with frescoes and even added a ...