ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest repatriation ...

The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later sold on the art market. By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is ...

The secret to human beauty lies in a mathematical code established by the ancient Greek sculptor Polykleitos through his ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio –The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has announced the acquisition of three new pieces to add to its robust collection – including an ancient Greek helmet, an oil painting by Dorothea ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art in Washington DC has announced it will return three ancient bronze sculptures to India after an internal investigation found that the artefacts had been ...

An ancient bronze lamp held in the collection of the Etruscan Academy Museum (MAEC) is the subject of a new paper published in De Gruyter’s Etruscan and Italic Studies, re-evaluating its iconography.

The museum did not detail its exact reasoning but said it had received information from New York investigators who consider the artifact to have been looted. By Tom Mashberg The J. Paul Getty Museum ...

In the autumn of 2022, Max and I walked up the iconic steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City to visit Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color. As the young son of a professional ...

NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze head of a griffin, a mythological creature, after determining that the artifact from the seventh century B.C. was probably ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s ...