Graffiti is something we are very familiar with, but how many of us know that this form of art was widely spread in ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photograph of the graffiti (American Journal of Archaeology/Langdon et al) A graffiti made by a shepherd in ancient Greece has ...

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The hills around Vari, 10 miles southeast of Athens, are etched with the musings of bored shepherds. The more than 2,000 graffiti (and counting) feature trireme warships, speeding horses, packs of ...

century B.C. Greek graffiti reveals that a different temple likely existed where the Parthenon now sits. Clues from drawings made by a shepherd show there was likely a temple older on the same site as ...

An ancient fifth-century Roman prison discovered in Greece contains harrowing graffiti on the prison floor. Located in Corinth, Greece, the Greek-language pleas that remain etched into the prison’s ...

Two millennia before anyone called it street art, the people of Pompeii were already at it: scratching jokes, insults of enemies, declarations of love and raunchy drawings into the city walls. Now, in ...