It lasted until 31 B.C.E. Hellenistic kings patronized the arts extensively, often commissioning public architecture and sculpture. Hellenistic artists both drew on earlier styles and forged ...

The laurel is evaluated as a priceless work due to its historical and archaeological significance, believed to have been worn by kings from the 1st and 3rd centuries BCE.

The Hellenistic world is that world that was created ... it probably was more of a problem that Herod, supposedly a Jewish king, would have been so willing to turn himself over, as it were ...

They say that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Some treasures are more surprising—and more valuable—than others, such as one man’s recent discovery: an ancient Greek sculpture wrapped in a ...