In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

An ancient sculpture from the collection of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is headed back to Iraq, where it was made, but not before yielding vital new information about ancient artists’ ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Twenty-two of the objects are from museums in Greece and ten from European collections: the Louvre, the British ...

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A reconstruction of a statue of a torso in armor from the Athenian Acropolis is part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition “Chroma,” which features ...