Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious ... “Storm God,” more common in Teotihuacan than Mayan art. Two bodies were buried underneath the altar – one ...

Pearl divers in Kuwait used to make music with a complex rhythmic pattern, but when Kuwait banned pearl diving in 1955, the music stopped with it. That captured the imagination of Ghazi Faisal ...

Discover the wonder of Ireland's ancient landscape at Dreamlines at Knowth Art Exhibition, Brú na Bóinne in Co. Meath. The Office of Public Works (OPW) has announced an exciting new art ...

Now through Sunday, March 8, 2026, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) presents the exhibition Flora et Fauna: Nature in Ancient Mediterranean Art and Culture. Featuring 85 objects from the ...

An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, was discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the ...

He has been writing professionally for over a decade. While art books are a modern staple of publishing, the process through which these books come about is often left unexplored and unexplained.

Sales trends outlined in the ninth edition of the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report show a shift toward more accessible works, with significant growth in transactions under $50,000.

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The painting and artistry is not what sticks out to archeologists at a newly discovered ancient altar in Guatemala. The likely ...

After a century-long wait, an excavation has finally revealed the only ancient theatre on Greece's Ionian Islands. Ancient Lefkada’s theatre was first discovered in 1901, but it took until now ...

By extracting ancient DNA from 13,000-year-old and 72,000-year-old fossils and merging it with that of modern gray wolves, scientists have created animals that look and behave like their long ...