The Pythian Games, ancient Greece's art Olympics, were a blend of athletic and cultural festivities taking place in Delphi ...

One of Igor Mitoraj's most spectacular works, the monumental sculpture "Tindaro", went under the hammer this week at the ...

When rolled on a moist clay tablet, these engravings left low-relief markings, signifying that the object’s owner authorized ...

Archaeologists discovered clusters of red ocher drawings scattered on rocks and cliffs across Canaima National Park—and have some theories on who made the mysterious art.

In a recent study, Dr. Timur Sadykov and his colleagues analyzed the Scythian animal-style artifacts recovered from one of ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

In a remote region of Brazil, archaeologists have unearthed rock art dating back approximately 9,000 years, which ...

Some 2,000 years ago, perhaps, ancient artists in the Arabian desert climbed tall rock outcrops and carved life-size camels into the stone. Some 2,000 years ago, perhaps, ancient artists in the ...

Don't confuse quilts with quilting. Quilts conjure visions of curling up by a fireplace or propped up in bed with a good book. They evoke phrases like "lost art" and "American tradition," phrases that ...

The 3,500-year-old stone head was found to have been “stolen and illegally exported from Egypt” after a rare tipoff from a ...

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