In October 2023, the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery of a 3,500-year-old sarcophagus ...

In a cave in southern Italy, archaeologists sifted through a muddy riverbed normally submerged by the turquoise waters of an underground river. A dull brown artifact caught their attention — and ...

Once an elaborate art form that entertained 15th-century Italian nobility, tarot cards have evolved into a tool of divination ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition ...

Thousands of 12,500-year-old rock paintings dubbed the "Sistine Chapel of the ancients" have been found in the Amazon jungle.

The small, shallow dishes that house bonsai trees are sized to inhibit root growth. Larger pots would hold more soil and water, allowing more space for roots to spread. That would be counterproductive ...

An exhibition displaying objects related to the culture of Dong Son is being held at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts.

Robert Alexander / Getty Images 8.This is Maud Wagner ... Apo Whang-Od specializes in batok, an ancient form of tattoo artistry from the Philippines. Read more about her here.

A crumb of bread entombed thousands of years ago alongside an ancient Egyptian mummy has been discovered among a collection of previously uncatalogued items. The microscopic morsel was unearthed ...

A charred scroll has been digitally deciphered for the first time in 2,000 years after it was buried in the ancient Italian city of Herculaneum following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.

Linguists and archaeologists have long argued about which group of ancient people spoke the original Indo-European language. A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray.