I was in a hilltop theatre built for 10,000 people, one that had one of the most striking backdrops I had ever seen. The sun, sliding low toward the earth in the west, lit up a mosaic of olive groves ...

Berlin’s Pergamon Museum has rejected calls to return the giant altar to its place of origin. Visitors look at the frescos and the Pergamon altar in the altar room at Pergamon Museum in Berlin, ...

An interdisciplinary study combines archaeometry and philology to confirm therapeutic practices described by Galen and other classical physicians, blurring the line between cosmetics and medicine. A ...

One of Berlin's top tourist attractions, the Pergamon Museum and its world-class collection of antiquities, will close this month for a top-to-bottom restoration not due to be completed before 2037.

The modern term “Hellenistic art” refers to works produced across a vast and greatly expanded Greek-speaking world between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. and the foundation of the Roman ...