It’s often all too difficult to convince myself to go off campus for the sole purpose of doing work. It is, undeniably, far ...

When Giovanni Torlonia and his son Alessandro were building the collection, it was common practice to repair ancient statuary ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

When digging through the rubble of an ancient church foundation, archaeologists found something unexpected. As crews in Rome ...

A close up of the intricate carvings include a pomegranate which appears 49 times A gallery described as the most decorative in Europe has been repaired and restored by conservators after six ...

The gallery, now open to visitors, is covered from floor to ceiling in more than 400 finely carved heraldic panels. Dominique Shembry, the National Trust collections and house manager, said ...

Recent excavations, such as a Roman basilica unearthed in London ... according to the Art Newspaper’s Gareth Harris, making it one of the largest archaeological archives on the planet.

Art is often considered to be a human endeavour. To suggest otherwise would be, for some, little more than anthropomorphism. Yet some species build fascinating structures and produce sounds that ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The French capital’s recent art history is the subject of two monumental surveys—one at the Centre Pompidou, the other at the Singaporean National Gallery of Art—that respectively focus on Black and ...

April 14, 2025 • Did you know there's an insect that can fling its pee 40 times faster than a cheetah accelerates? We did — thanks to a comic from the Bhamla Lab at the Georgia Institute of ...

Elaborately carved marble doorways ... The sand and the culture bleed among the pencil-drawn boundaries of maps. We were there to meet and learn about the Tuareg, a semi-nomadic people who ...