A major source of evidence for ancient Greece is painted pottery. The two most popular decorative styles are black-figure vase painting, practiced in the late 7th and 6th centuries B.C.E., and ...

The Manhattan district attorney’s office recently ordered the Metropolitan Museum of Art to surrender an ancient vase that it believes was looted from Italy decades ago. The vase, which until recently ...

Ancient Greek vases have been found in tombs, sanctuaries, and other kinds of deposits in Greece, Italy, Asia Minor, the Levant, Spain, and other lands surrounding and beyond the Mediterranean Sea (1) ...

Among the looted items are works from the periods of the Etruscan civilisation, Magna Graecia, and Imperial Rome, with the oldest ones dating back to the ninth century B.C. Italy is celebrating the ...

ROME — The United States on Tuesday officially returned 25 artifacts looted over the decades from Italy, including Etruscan vases, 1st-century frescoes and precious books that ended up in U.S. museums ...

Jessica Vincent had just started surveying the shelves of an op shop in the US state of Virginia when a vase caught her eye. It was shaped like a bottle and had ribbons of colour, aqua green and ...

ROME -- With the return of a long-sought masterpiece of antiquity, Italy on Friday trumpeted one of the successes of its campaign to recover what it says are looted treasures from museums and ...

An ancient vase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been confiscated by the Manhattan district attorney’s office based on evidence that it was looted from Italy in the 1970s, the New York Times ...