Newsweek

Archaeologists Find ‘Rare And Valuable’ Ancient Marble Lion Head

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Archaeologists have uncovered an unusually large marble lion gargoyle ...

Greece's iconic Parthenon is back: One of the world’s most famous temples just reclaimed a lost piece of history

Greece Parthenon restoration: Athens' iconic Parthenon has regained a significant piece of its history with the completion of ...
Artnet

Greek Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Marble Workshop Filled With Unfinished Statues

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens

Key concepts: What is the Parthenon? One of Greece's most famous structures, this temple sits on the hill of the Acropolis of Athens. It was built between 447 and 438 B.C.E., and dedicated to the ...
The Art Newspaper

Chilean retiree returns Ancient Greek marble fragment his father took in the 1930s

Enrico Tosti-Croce was driving in Villarrica, in southern Chile, when he heard on the radio that the Greek government was asking the British Museum to return its famous Parthenon Marbles. Since 1983, ...
National Geographic news

Visit the islands where most Greek marble statues were made

When a shepherd—the only resident on the three-square-mile island of Despotikó—spotted a Byzantine coin lying in his goat pen in 2010, it was like finding an “X” on a treasure map, but the coin was ...