The Phoenicians were prolific merchants and explorers who traveled from their home in the Levant across the ancient Near East ...

BEST OF 2024 From Monet and Van Gogh to Tim Burton and Zanele Muholi, this has been a fantastic year for art ...

Welancora Gallery shines a spotlight on 81-year-old artist Helen Evans Ramsaran, who makes bronze sculpture inspired by ...

Controversy over whether it was disrupted by an Aryan invasion may now be discredited, but the debate over Indus ancestry and ...

Felix Lok Ching-nam looks right at home inside the “cave” in Hong Kong he is using to present a selection of items about prehistoric cultures and ancient civilisations. Lok is the founder of ...

Human bones discovered in a pit in Somerset, England, 50 years ago have recently been examined by researchers, revealing a grim tale of violence and cannibalism during the Bronze Age. The ...

The Sanxingdui civilization in modern-day Sichuan Province created extraordinary bronze masks and artifacts unlike anything else found in ancient China. Their distinctive artistic ... the earliest ...

The new spa is also home to a “Presidential Hammam”, which is inside a traditional wooden Thai door adorned with elegant bronze handles ... Eastern and North African bathing rituals.

Welcome to Next Africa, a twice-weekly newsletter on where the continent stands now — and where it’s headed. Sign up here to have it delivered to your email. An outbreak of a mysterious flu ...

Archaeologists have found a white marble statue of a woman wearing a royal crown under the walls of an ancient temple and ... cosmetic preservation, several bronze statues, and an amulet engraved ...

In December 1980, the exiled African Brazilian artist and scholar ... be celebrated in the exhibition Project a Black Planet: the Art and Culture of Panafrica, at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Over the past ten years or so, investigations of degraded or ‘ancient’ DNA have skyrocketed. By extracting DNA fragments from diverse sources —from human teeth and faeces to soil samples and ...