Antiquities

Got Five Minutes? These Artworks Have Something to Tell You

In honor of Slow Art Day, six artworks that reward you for taking your sweet time.

Annelisa Stephan | April 11, 2014

Explore the Getty Villa’s summer exhibition “Heaven and Earth” through one of its most compelling masterpieces.

If the sacrificial liver looks bad, stay home...and other soothsaying wisdom.

Shelby Brown | March 14, 2014

There’s a new emperor in town—an 8-foot-tall bronze Tiberius, to be exact.

David Saunders | March 10, 2014

One of the world’s oldest surviving religions, Zoroastrianism played an important role in the history of ancient Persia.

Annelisa Stephan | December 2, 2013

Why explains the Cyrus Cylinder’s shape?

Annelisa Stephan | November 29, 2013

Depictions of Cyrus the Great of ancient Persia

David Saunders | November 1, 2013

Ten facts about the Cyrus Cylinder.

David Saunders | October 28, 2013

Outrageous criminal or misunderstood victim? A new exhibition finds the man behind the scandal.

David Saunders | October 25, 2013

Retracing the travels of a beautiful Greek vase, from Naples to England to Los Angeles by way of a near miss with the sea floor

David Saunders | September 27, 2013

Newly cleaned and conserved at the Getty Villa, this monumental Roman statue will go on view October 16.

An ancient depiction of a classroom and the mysterious marked letters on a scroll; but what do these letters mean?

David Saunders | July 31, 2013