The ancient Greek city of Pergamon was a major center of culture and learning of the Hellenistic world, standing out for its ...

Beverly Foit-Albert has difficulty giving voice to the transformation provoked when she encountered the architecture of ancient China. She acknowledges simply that the experience changed her life. An ...

Many ancient Egyptian, Greek and Islamic religious buildings share a common feature known as hypostyle. Defined as rows of columns that support a roof, this solution has developed in different ...

Studio Integrate wants to bring the mathematical genius of ancient Iran to modern architecture. "Some of Iran's most famous structures were built 500 years ago but achieve what we want now -- ...

The recycled buildings of Rome, long dismissed by architects, are getting a reappraisal as a model for how to reduce waste while creating something fresh. ROME — For centuries, historians and ...

For the first time in the United States, visitors to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art can enjoy a remarkable group of roof-ridge ornaments that were fashionable in Korea more than 1,000 ...

Greece is launching a project for the restoration of the Archaic Temple of Apollo Hopleus at the site of Ancient Metropolis ...

That inspiration was visible in her recent collection, Hellenic Charms. “I wanted to pay homage to Greece and to Athens,” she ...

A study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the introduction of ...

India’s ancient temples are more than places of worship—they are living history and its cultural heritage. From the Brihadeeswarar Temple in the south to Kedarnath in the Himalayas, these temples show ...