Street artist RETNA walked away from his studio. Now Heritage Auctions is offering the contents for sale as abandoned ...

Ancient cave art in Mexico dating back between 5,000 and 500 years ago has been carved from the wall and damaged by looters.

Papyrus making workshops transport participants to the ancient world of paper crafting, originating in Egypt 's Nile Delta.

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" ...

In Brisbane, the Queensland Art Gallery presented the work of the little-known Isaac Walter Jenner earlier in the year, another modest but significant contribution to the history of painting in ...

Samples of the Black Death, which wiped out as many as 50 million people in medieval Europe, have been found in an ancient Egyptian mummy. The pandemic, also known as bubonic plague, spread ...

Big money, big ideas and big egos — the art world has all the necessary ingredients ... On social media, the aggressively red 8.5- by 6.5-foot painting was variously described as the “visual ...

Scientists discovered an over 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy who may have died of the bubonic plague, marking the first case of the disease outside Eurasia. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

In the coal mining village on the outskirts of Birmingham, opportunities were scant, and a career in art seemed out of the ... saw them and said if you can paint them as well as you draw them ...

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Visitors can spend hours meandering through the carefully looked-after displays, catching glimpses of hieroglyphs ... household objects paint a vibrant picture of ancient Egyptian life.