Works acquired by Rotterdam’s new Fenix museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and a small Greek island ...

Dark, direct, soulful: The eyes of the Al Fayyum portraits stare out and invite viewers in to see the faces of Egyptians who lived thousands of years ago, when the Greek Ptolemy rule gave way to Rome.

It was during recent restoration of the monastery that the fresco containing the portrait of the Byzantine emperor was discovered. The Greek Minister for Culture, Lina Mendoni, called the portrait ...

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The Australian Hellenic Choir’s upcoming concert ‘A Portrait of Greece’ takes place this Sunday June 1. The concert has two ...

In addition to the mummy portraits, archaeologists found the remains of a building where mummies were buried and a statue that depicts Isis-Aphrodite, an Egyptian-Greek goddess associated with love.

in ancient Greek, "City of Brotherly Love") nearly 2000 years ago. The collection of paintings, known as the Fayoum portraits, portrays some of the wealthiest people that existed in these ancient ...