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Greek Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Marble Workshop Filled With Unfinished Statues

The latest ancient Greek archaeological find to cause a stir is a Hellenistic marble workshop, discovered during a dig on Paros, part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea. You might not know ...
Greek Reporter

The Ancient Greek Art of Marble Sculpture Lives on Tinos Island

When one thinks of white, marble art and clear, cerulean waters of Tinos island, Greece comes to mind. The two are synonymous ...
Newsweek

Archaeologists Find ‘Rare And Valuable’ Ancient Marble Lion Head

Archaeologists have uncovered an unusually large marble lion gargoyle belonging to one of Sicily's ancient Greek temples. Only nine other ancient Greek temples in southern Italy and Sicily are known ...
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Archaeologists just found the oldest Greek altar in the Western Mediterranean, but all Greek settlements were coastal. This was 150 miles inland.

Archaeologists working in southwestern Spain have uncovered what is now identified as a fragment of the oldest known Greek marble altar in the western Mediterranean. Carved in fine marble and shaped ...
New Scientist

Marble of ancient Greek statue traced to its likely origin

One of the great statues of antiquity has been connected to its likely birthplace by analysis of its marble. The Colossus of the Naxians on the Greek island of Delos once stood about 9 metres tall, ...
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Visit the islands where most Greek marble statues were made

When a shepherd—the only resident on the three-square-mile island of Despotikó—spotted a Byzantine coin lying in his goat pen in 2010, it was like finding an “X” on a treasure map, but the coin was ...