The Annals by Tacitus, composed just 91 years after the death of Jesus, provide according to some invaluable data about his ...

The ancient Greek wall painting decorating the tomb of King Philip of Macedonia comes back to life after archaeologists restored it digitally ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of ...

Throughout Lent this year, the St. John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., is hosting an exhibit on the Shroud of ...

One key example: The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which carry the story of Jesus’ followers forward after his ...

The Huntington has acquired a print of Jesus in the Mount of Olives that had been pasted inside its Gutenberg Bible for 400 ...

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For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

I first heard Himmat Shah saying this to artist Pooja Iranna as I followed them around during Shah’s retrospective, “Hammer of the Square,” at the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA ... Lothal—an ancient ...

It is the oldest known depiction of Jesus Christ wearing ... Hellenistic mosaics. Ancient Roman mosaic of Apollo, from the archaeological site of Old Paphos, Cyprus. Although the St. Catherine icon ...

In a groundbreaking study led by archaeologist Cecilie Brøns and published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, a fascinating aspect of ancient art has come to light: the use of perfumes and aromatic ...