Greece's southern city of Kalamata, long known for its olives and seaside charm, has found itself in the spotlight.

In a darkened college classroom, students are introduced to a projected image of a famous work of Greek art brimming with intense drama. The students scrutinize the ancient wall painting discovered in ...

“Athens is a tourism black hole,” bluntly states Pavlos Yeroulanos, Minister of Culture and Tourism, in a recent interview. “My job is to promote culture but the changes I’m trying to make happen, ...

I rarely paid attention to images or pictures. My focus was always the written word. My mind built the gods, heroes, and material artifacts, including temples and the Parthenon. I had to do that ...

Perhaps no other ancient city captures our imagination quite like Pompeii. The storyline is familiar: a thriving city on the Bay of Naples- a mecca of high culture and a playground of the rich- ...

Greece’s prime minister hinted in an interview about a possible solution to the longstanding and bitter conflict with England over the Parthenon Marbles, iconic artifacts that were removed from Athens ...

The Orientalizing period in Greece refers to a roughly 100-year period in which Greek art was greatly influenced by eastern, and specifically Near Eastern and Egyptian, ideas, myths, and decorative ...

A sculpture dating to the Hellenistic Greek period has turned up in the most unlikely of settings. It all started when a 32-year-old Greek man in the city of Thessaloniki stumbled upon a statue ...

Crime-solving techniques applied to a medieval illuminated manuscript in Paris may have solved a centuries-old puzzle - the true identity of a leading Byzantine painter who injected humanity into the ...

According to billionaire Leonard Stern, he is doing a “great thing” for art lovers in Greece and America. But some of Greece’s politicians, historians and art scholars beg to differ. At the center of ...