Ikebana, the Japanese art of arranging flowers, is a form of expression that dates back more than 500 years. It continues to blossom, quietly, not only with traditionalists but also with newcomers who ...

If “The Golden Thread,” the new two-volume history of the Western tradition, landed with a thud, it’s a matter of sheer weight.

Field investigations on the periphery of Kohunlich document an elite multi-chamber Maya palace positioned on a colossal artificial pyramid platform. Architectural surveys reveal collapsed underground ...

Naos tou Olympiou Dios in Athen stretches a grid of marble columns across an open archaeological field between the Acropolis and the former Ilissos river.

Explore the ancient Acropolis and its remarkable role in Greek history while discovering its architecture cultural ...

The argument can be traced back to the Roman author Vitruvius, who talked about Greek architecture several centuries after the Parthenon was finished. Vitruvius said that if the platform was ...

A recent publication in the American Journal of Archaeology tells a historical detective story of a lost temple on Athens’ Acropolis. It all began with the discovery of ancient graffiti. The ancient ...

Naos tou Olympiou Dios in Athen, known as the Temple of Olympian Zeus, sets a long row of marble columns against the Acropolis and the open Attic sky.

In the first century B.C.E., Vitruvius wrote that the Acropolis’ largest temple was horizontally bowed so that it didn't seem to sag, and that explanation persisted for millennia. New research suggest ...

"The Parthenon is more than a building standing on the Athenian Acropolis; it has become over the ages the very paradigm of ...

The Monroe County Commission has proclaimed September as “Library Card Sign-up Month,” recognizing the role public libraries ...

Researchers say there is no evidence that ancient Greeks held any knowledge of the particular visual illusions attributed to ...