From ancient Greece to present day, the classic male form has changed shape. So what exactly does a 'dad bod' look like, asks Bernard O'Shea ...

Macedonia faced a sudden cultural and military shock when Celtic warriors shattered the Hellenistic illusion of invincibility.

Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient Roman city on Israel's coast, which appears to be the grand port built by a king described in the Bible. The city of Caesarea Maritima, just 28 miles north of ...

Athens-based editor Katie Silcox has narrowed down this list of 15 places everyone should visit in Greece in their lifetime, ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. Why are so many statues naked? – Artie, age 12, ...

Ancient Greek geographer Pausanias wrote that Lycosura in Arcadia is the oldest city in the world and "the first that the sun beheld." ...

In almost every Greek city you will find ancient monuments, sculptures or building remains that are evidence of the grand ...

Sending shockwaves through the archaeological world, Roman diver Stefano Mariottini was snorkelling about 8 meters deep when he saw a hand sticking out from the sandy bottom. Thinking he had found ...

Today, the scarab remains a focus of popular devotion through a tourist tradition: people circle it - often seven times - seeking luck, love, or a wish fulfilled, echoing (in a modern, secular form) ...

The 20th-century art historian Kenneth Clark made a distinction between the “naked,” meaning unclothed and ashamed, and the ...

Used clothes, stainless steel, mirror and sponge form Yin Xiuzhen's "Introspective Cavity" (2008). - Courtesy the artist/Beijing Commune/UCCA On a rainy afternoon in London, Yin Xiuzhen sits under a ...

In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Sir William Gell (British, 1774–1836), The Removal ...