Late scholar Philippe Gilles Rene Missillier spent more than 50 years amassing one of the world’s most impressive collections ...

With pieces that draw upon the traditional knowledge of her Alaska Native and Sámi heritage, artist Miranda Ciquyaq Robb's ...

Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.

Archaeologists have made the exciting discovery of the remains of at least five mammoths during excavations in Austria.

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

The modern museum traces its origins to the “kunstkammer” literally an “art room” that stored and displayed works of art. Another word for it was “wunderkammer” or “room of wonders.” ...

Some still have their lids, or stoppers, while others have carved designs and some flecks ... ring with the name of Ramses III, as well as an ivory box and various beads and stones.

Sealed for over 30,000 years, a hidden cave in France has revealed a haunting prehistoric world—where early humans left behind mysterious carvings and ancient secrets ... where both occur together, ...

This is the only surviving funerary relief of the ancient Greek world depicting twin babies in the same arms is a poignant example of classical Greek funerary art, often associated with themes of ...

The Lascaux caves -- which are also located in Dordogne, though their artworks are estimated to be thousands of years younger than the Cussac carvings -- were closed to the public in 1963 to save ...

His parents moved to Ivory Coast in the 1980s, towards the end of a period of exceptional economic growth that economists dubbed the “Ivorian miracle”. They came to work, drawn by the country ...