London researchers recently reconstructed large Roman plaster collection, revealing vibrant frescoes hidden for 1,800 years ...

The Kore of Thera adorns the revamped museum on Thira. Credit: Ministry of Culture Archaeological Museum of Thera: Frescoes and the “Kore of Thera” Mendoni recalled the promise, made in 2021, to fully ...

The Boxers Fresco is estimated to have been created around 1600 BC, shortly before the volcanic eruption that buried Akrotiri. Credit: National Archaeological Museum, Athens One of the most ...

The Thera Archaeological Museum is to be the next stop for the flagship exhibition “Kykladitisses (Cycladic Women): Untold Stories of Women in the Cyclades”, organised by the Museum of Cycladic Art ...

As for the fresco from the Adytum, it dominates the “Cycladic Women” exhibition at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, along with the impressive Thira girl, which was found lying on her back ...

The idea that women were inferior to men was a widely held belief in ancient Greek society, and one that would go on to influence Western culture for many centuries thanks in large part to the ...

The museum was founded in 1829, originally headquartered in Aegina, the first capital of Greece, before being transferred to Athens in 1834, according to the National Archaeological Museum's website.

It's one of the wall paintings of Thera unearthed at Akrotiri on the Greek island of Santorini. The ancient pugilists can today be admired at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens. Getty Images ...

But it’s the ruins of abandoned Akrotiri and its sense of lives lived that I found most affecting. Joint tickets to Akrotiri and the Museum of Prehistoric Thira cost € 15; archaeologicalmuseums.gr ...

A cleaning woman stands between statues as she watches the presentation event for the planned renovation of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023.