Boxing in ancient Greece originated as a very tough sport, much harder than professional boxing as we know it today.

This pair of larger-than-life bronze sculptures, created around 460-450 BCE, depict two ancient Greek warriors. The sculptures are magnificent examples of the sculptor’s ability to display detai ...

Did you know that ancient sculptures were once richly coloured? Researchers have known about this for centuries, but the general public remains largely unaware.

An ancient bronze griffin's head returns today to the same museum in ancient Olympia from where it was stolen in the 1930s.

No eminent Victorian’s mantelpiece was complete without its little bronze animal ... les animaliers abandoned the Greek and Renaissance art, which idealized man, and started ennobling the ...