The renovated Archaeological Museum of Thera opens with the acclaimed exhibition 'Cycladic Women: Unknown Stories', ...

Archaeologists were working on “La Place,” a medieval northern city gate that was demolished in the 1700s, when they found a ...

An archaeological dig in eastern France revealed the remnants of a five-foot-high equestrian statue that likely overlooked a ...

In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

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

I hope that more museums follow the Asian Art Museum’s example. We’ve come a long way, but there’s still a long way to go,” Davis said.

Rock art is dominated by four basic colors, he explained; red and yellow, often formed of a natural clay earth pigment known as ochre, black, created using charcoal, and white, sometimes applied ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

They discovered three ancient cemeteries, one of which held a stone burial dated to approximately 4,000 years ago. The team also found several rock shelters with painted rock art and also several ...

Statue of a Resting Goat. Body: late 1st century, Roman, Imperial period. Head attributed to Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680). (Lorenzo De Masi/Torlonia Collection, Rome/Torlonia Foundation ...

Another ‘unconventional’ form of art that is now becoming famous is puppetry. Just like pottery, puppetry is also an ancient art form, but has now become more than just entertainment for ...