Throughout her practice, Niki Saint Phalle repeatedly referenced a personal and mythical bestiary that she brought to life in ...

In 1862, an American antiquities dealer was in an Egyptian marketplace, squinting at a scroll. The scroll was written in hieratic, a type of ancient Egyptian cursive, and the dealer, Edwin Smith, wasn ...

The ancient Greek statue of Apoxyomenos is an ancient Greek bronze statue depicting an athlete scraping dust from his body ...

The Great Pyramid was part of a group of pyramids outside Giza, which also included the Great Sphinx. Ancient Egyptians thought cats were very special. They wanted to take their cats with them ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

A new study demonstrates that certain incised stone artifacts from the Levantine Middle Paleolithic, specifically from Manot, ...

The sixth edition of Art Cairo, Egypt’s premier art fair, is set to take place from February 8 to 11, 2025, at the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), showcasing contemporary and modern Arab art on an ...

VICE reports that Seamus Blackley, more famous as the man behind Xbox, had the chance of a lifetime to bake some bread using 4,500-year-old yeast that was collected from ancient Egyptian relics.

In this documentary, the artist depicts what a more just and beautiful world might look like. By Alissa Wilkinson Ke Huy Quan and Ariana DeBose play reunited former associates from a criminal ...

They are animal bones covered in ancient writing and were used to try to predict the future. The King would call on a priest to help him talk to the gods. King: The crops are dry, is the rain ...

Do you want to explore ancient temples without playing human Tetris with tour groups? If you wish to snap a pyramid selfie without 20 other tourists throwing peace signs in the background then head ...

Collection of Middlebury College Museum of Art. Purchase with funds provided by the Barbara ... Eloise McFarlane ’24.5 chronicles ancient glass specimens from the Roman Empire as well as others of ...