With dreamlike imagery and bold patterns, contemporary Iranian artists have reinterpreted the Persian miniature tradition.

Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.

Short snouts and a flat profile -- within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of German domestic pigs. This is likely down to new breeding practices ...

The bones and skulls were found strewn among animal remains, a burial that was meant to humiliate a conquered rival even after defeat ...

New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began ...

Learn how with painstaking effort, archaeological artists bring back faces from the past.

Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami” at Gagosian’s Mayfair branch in London showcases the Japanese polymathic artist in remix mode as he updates important pieces from his country’s artistic ...

As Sherald’s work has evolved technically and thematically through the 2020s, it increasingly engages with broader cultural conversations about representation.

Archaeologists in England are currently puzzling over a 2,000-year-old comb that was carved from the back of a human skull.

January 29, 2025 • Even if Greenland were for sale, buying the Artic territory would be complicated. And French President Emmanuel Macron promises to renovate the Louvre, which is falling into ...

“READ is — without question — the most visible graffiti writer in New Orleans,” street art authority Kady Perry wrote in her 2019 book “New Orleans: Street Art, Murals and Graffiti.” “His tags can be ...