Satyrs were creatures linked strongly with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, pleasure, and theater. These party-loving, ...
The recent discovery of the grave of Pharaoh Thutmose II in Luxor brings to light crucial information on the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
her embroideries and paintings could easily be mistaken for ancient scrolls depicting a vibrant and fantastical myth or legend. But look more closely, and you will see that Sasmita’s art ...
Once an elaborate art form that entertained 15th-century Italian nobility, tarot cards have evolved into a tool of divination ...
By Larry Barnett When I was growing up in the ‘50s the only tattoos I saw were on the arms of working men, either patriotic ...
The head of a griffin from 7th century B.C. is believed to have been taken from a museum in Olympia in the 1930s and later ...
From the Magazine of the Archaeological Institute of America comes the jaw-dropping chronicle of an Egyptian temple, once ...
Discovered on accident in Rimini, Italy, this surgeon’s house and the hooks, scalpels, and mortars inside have expanded what ...
Spectacular statues reveal art tradition of ancient Rome’s lost sculpture capital - City of Perga on Turkey’s southwestern ...
As a kid of the 1970s, I was fascinated by a short-lived art movement known as photorealism ... lot like a photograph does not make it one. Photos start out as light captured via a photosensitive ...
Researchers initially thought the tomb belonged to a royal wife. Then they unearthed fragments of alabaster jars that identified it as Thutmose II’s Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Pottery shards ...
The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.