The vibrant period of Ancient Greek civilization from 1200 BCE to 323 BCE gave us exceptional achievements that we continue to benefit from today. It was a long stretch of time that spanned from the ...

Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...

There were many similarities between ancient Greece and Egypt. The two civilizations were in close contact during the ...

Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...

Paterson has held an interest in both ancient Greek narratives and NYC architecture since childhood. In her piece Atlas & Rivington (pictured above) the titan Atlas does not hold up the globe, but a ...

An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds. The dig, which ...

Ancient Greeks were ahead of the curve in a lot of ways—including, it seems, issues of accessibility. A new archaeological study has found that stone ramps on some ancient buildings were likely built ...

Pottery in ancient Greece, as elsewhere, was fired in a specially-made ceramic kiln. Other firing structures, including food ovens, smelting furnaces, and lime kilns, would have been unsuitable for ...

When our new country was founded, American buildings emulated their European precedents. Then, around 1820, we developed a look of our own. Fittingly for the new republic, it was based on the reuse of ...