A helmet up for auction in London is a well-preserved example of the "Corinthian" helmets used by many hoplite warriors.

Ancient Greek vase painting is fascinating, fun, and with few tricks, easy to enjoy. The unique paintings on ancient Greek pottery are like letters from the past. They allow us to learn from the past ...

The styles of ancient Greek pottery and the strange effigies of the Olympic god Hermes which were used in ways few moderns ...

It is called a dark age because nobody knows much about what happened - all written language and art ... ‘ancient Greece’. Greece was divided up into small city-states: Athens Sparta Corinth ...

Estimating the population of Ancient Greece is a complex task due to the lack of accurate historical records and the different time periods.

Little remains of the ancient city of Sparta, capital of the Laconia region, situated on the Peloponnesus peninsula in modern Greece ... Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut Photograph ...

The Apollo Art Auctions company ... wrote that such helmets were used by warriors from many other ancient Greek city-states, including Sparta. The object is "a rare and exceptionally well ...