New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a seventh-century B.C.E. bronze head of a griffin to Greece after new research revealed that it had been stolen in the 1930s. The artifact was ...

Following its repatriation, the griffin will return to the Met ... In 2022, Stern gifted his collection of ancient Cycladic art to Greece, and under the terms of a 25-year agreement a rotating ...

During her recent visit to the US, Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni attended various meetings and events, promoting ...

The museum's researchers concluded it was likely illegally removed from the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in the 1930s, though details of the removal aren't known.

The ancient Greeks often decorated their bronze cauldrons, used to honor the gods, with the head of a griffin, whose visage is that of an eagle but whose body is that of a lion. On its website ...

Using new scientific tools, University of Cincinnati archaeologists discovered that an ancient Greek leader known today as the Griffin Warrior likely grew up around the seaside city he would one ...

The cast-bronze head of a griffin was bequeathed to the Met in ... where she also received a lekythos, a type of ancient Greek vessel, from the Glencairn Museum in Pennsylvania during an official ...

The griffin head wasn’t the only artifact that Mendoni received during her trip. During an event at the Greek embassy, she was also given a lekythos, an ancient Greek flask, that had been housed ...