The archaeological site of Olympia ... One of the museum's star attractions is the Hermes of Praxiteles, a stunning marble statue that captures the grace and beauty of ancient art.

The ancient shipwreck of Peristera is open to divers who would like to witness the famous shipwreck of amphorae from the 5th ...

A NCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

By Graham Bowley The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece ... It was originally discovered in a river bed in Olympia, in the Peloponnese region of Greece, in 1914 by the curator ...

The cast-bronze sculpture, which has been on display at the entrance to the Met’s Greek and Roman galleries since 1999, was previously in the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia.

Depicting myths and characters from Greek lore, sculptures decorated the temple. Many have survived and are on display in the National Archaeological Museum ... sanctuary of Olympia, with the ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art New York ... Archaeological Museum of Olympia, for which he was referred for criminal prosecution over 80 years ago.” Lina Mendoni, Greece’s culture minister ...

NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning to Greece the bronze ... probably stolen from an archaeological museum in Olympia, Greece, in the 1930s. The museum said the head, which ...