Mask art — from oversized, artistic heads to masked portraits to theatrical masks — is featured in performance art around the world. A recent Boston University four-part symposia focused specifically ...

Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat theater built by the Romans in the first century C.E.

Archaeologists in southern Turkey have uncovered five new theatrical mask reliefs from the ancient city of Castabala — once called Hieropolis during its Hellenistic period, or “sacred city.” The find ...

The discovery recontextualizes the history of arts in the country. A 2,200-year-old mask fragment discovered by archaeologists in the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria, located on Russia’s Taman ...

A series stone reliefs discovered in southern Turkey is truly befitting of the theater district they were found in. Archaeologists uncovered five distinctly theatrical mask-style reliefs sporting ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Five theatrical masks discovered at an ancient Turkish site are dated to the time of the Roman Empire. The masks were found alongside a 5,000-seat ...