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Thousands of newly discovered fragments, which once adorned a high-status Roman building, offer an unprecedented glimpse into ...

The researchers shared their surprising findings in a new study that highlights the importance of using science to examine art and antiquity.

The collapse of American global power was more pointedly represented by Dahn Vo’s In God We Trust: the American flag, with ...

The nation’s preeminent museum returns a stunning collection to view.

A new exhibition at the British Museum in London showcases the rich journey of India's spiritual art. Titled Ancient India: ...

Over 2,000 fragments, originally discarded during Roman demolition around AD 200, were painstakingly reassembled by experts ...

For the past 100 years, Egyptologists thought that when the powerful female pharaoh Hatshepsut died, her nephew and successor ...

The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired the Giambologna sculpture Fata Morgana, a rare marble by the Italian Mannerist ...

The English have long had a special relationship with mute swans. But when a magnificent male rears to his full 5ft height, stretches out his 7ft wingspan and hisses like a steam iron, what are ...

He found that it is staggeringly ancient: at least 35,400 years old. That likely makes it the oldest-known example of figurative art anywhere in the world—the world’s very first picture.