Museums are fascinating, but if you're looking for the unique, weird and quirky, you may find these very interesting.

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

Tucked away in Houston’s northern reaches sits a museum that gives new meaning to the phrase “deadly serious” – the National Museum of Funeral History. This isn’t your typical “let’s go see some ...

Here’s a park that most Californians have never even heard of. Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park is like finding buried ...

Human-shaped flint figurines from 7500 B.C. may reveal how a Neolithic death cult sparked the rise of human representation in ...

These newly discovered figurines dating back to 7500 B.C. are believed to be linked to the burial practices of an ancient cult — who dug up their dead. At the site where these figures were found, ...

Carved into the desert floor and only fully visible from above, the Blythe Intaglios are among North America’s most mysterious geoglyphs. Located off US 95 near Blythe, these massive figures ...

Scientists say they found one of the oldest known symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint in Europe. The print hints at the possible capacity of Neanderthals to create art.

Researchers in central Spain say they may have uncovered one of the most ancient symbolic objects bearing a human fingerprint on record in Europe, dating back tens of thousands of years. Unlocking ...

At over 40,000 years old, the Murujuga rock art in Western Australia’s Pilbara region is the world’s largest and biggest collection of petroglyphs, and scientists say toxic gases are erasing it.

Theriake, in Ancient Greek, meant “an antidote against a poisonous bite”. It then came to be used for any medicine doused in sugar syrup to disguise its taste.

Ancient India: living traditions: The British Museum botches a beautiful topic Academic point-scoring over long-dead excavators turns a potentially grand narrative into a series of inside-baseball ...