In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Pearl divers in Kuwait used to make music with a complex rhythmic pattern, but when Kuwait banned pearl diving in 1955, the music stopped with it. That captured the imagination of Ghazi Faisal ...

The lecture hall was discovered during excavations at Agrigento, the site of the largest ancient Greek settlement in Sicily. Photo by Thomas Lappi and Monika Trümper, FU Berlin, Institute of ...

Public Domain. A discovery in Aigai, Greece sparked intrigue among art historians and theologians alike. It was a 4th-century BC fresco known as the “Madonna of Aigai.” This ancient Greek depiction ...

The colour pallette is inspired by materials of an ancient Greek ruin. Livissianis was also wary of controlling the flow of the space. “[There] were probably multiple ways that you could enter ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – An ancient Greco ... it depicts an unknown Greek philosopher. The museum bought it in 1986 for $1.85 million from Edward H. Merrin Inc., a New York art gallery.

And so hopefully that's an interesting combination of something that feels, you know, kind of reminiscent of this ancient art, but hopefully a little bit more modern and, and, you know, kind of ...

The researchers have also estimated that construction on the theater began around the 4th century B.C.E., when ancient Lefkada was experiencing economic prosperity. “Although damaged by time ...

He was a Greek mathematician and the head librarian at the Library ... a feat that stands as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient science. Using the differences in the angle of the sun’s rays at ...

Nikos Papadopoulos, a member of parliament for the Greek far-right party Niki (Victory ... My works are not icons of worship, but visual works of art. I neither put them in a church nor did ...

They were revered as demigods and thus, hold a divininity that has been immortalized through the millennia in ancient Greek art, mythology and writings. Also known as “ieros icthys” (ιερός ιχθύς or ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, mammoths and rhinoceros into the walls, a fabulous prehistoric menagerie that ...