While excavating the ruins of Pompeii, the ancient Roman city destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 C.E., ...

The latest exhibition of the Unseen Museum initiative unveils a little-known technique of Mycenaean craftsmen, dubbed ...

Valuable ancient artefacts provide a direct connection to human history by revealing details such as the old ways of life and ...

A pair of vases thought to be by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson are heading to auction in Glasgow this weekend. Thomson was one of the most gifted architects of the Victorian era, whose unconventional ...

Explore art works, paint-smeared palettes, scribbled letters and more... Artists and architects have run the RA for 250 years. Our Collection is a record of them.

The drawing on the vase called aryvallos depicts a physician performing bloodletting ... the authors of a recent study wrote in the Journal of Clinical Medicine. “All previous Ancient Greek scenes ...

This sap contains toxins, and when put in a vase, it can actually poison the water, causing the other blooms to wilt and die. While it’s a common belief that you can’t mix daffodils with other ...

Carol McNicoll, who has died aged 81, was a pioneering studio potter whose witty, postmodern work transformed the ceramics scene in 1970s Britain. She belonged to a cohort of women who studied at ...