An Ancient Greek coin to a defaced penny: The groundbreaking audio series that explored world history through objects

In 2010, a radio show was launched called A History of the World in 100 Objects which recounted two million years of ...
Los Angeles Times

Getty might return some antiquities

The J. Paul Getty Museum has agreed in principle to return some of the four antiquities Greek authorities have claimed were illegally removed from that country, and will continue negotiations over the ...
Ancient Origins

Sinister Looking Greek Theater Mask Found Inside a Cave in Croatia

The mask is hollow inside and features a small hole at the top, indicating it was likely suspended, perhaps hung on a wall within the cave . In the ancient Greek world, theatrical masks were not mere ...
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A 13-year-old boy found a bronze coin in the dirt. It turned out to be Berlin’s first ancient Greek treasure

A 13-year-old boy walking across a farm field on the outskirts of Berlin has discovered a small bronze coin that experts have now confirmed as the first artifact from ancient Greece ever unearthed in ...
La Brújula Verde

Two small Mycenaean gold objects from the late Bronze Age found in tombs on a Greek island bear Northern European solar symbols

A detailed study of two Mycenaean gold ornaments, found in tombs on the island of Cephalonia, has revealed that their solar symbols have a distant origin: northern and central Europe. The research, ...
Concordia University

Greek and Roman antiquities

The Greek and Roman antiquities owned by the Diniacopoulos family range in date from the prehistoric to the Greek and through the late Roman periods, and cover a myriad of artforms and media: ...
Voice of America

Greek Monastery Seeks Return of Stolen Religious Objects from Bulgaria

Leading clerics and monks in Greece are urging the state to take legal action against Bulgaria in a bid to win back hundreds of rare religious relics, including Byzantine manuscripts, that Greece ...