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.

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 ...

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

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Today, the idea of intentionally dismembering and displaying human body parts can seem shocking ... At the end of 2024, the skull of St. Thomas Aquinas – the great Dominican medieval thinker ...

Today, the idea of intentionally dismembering and displaying human body parts can seem shocking, even repulsive. Yet venerating relics remains far from a “relic” of the past. At the end of 2024, the ...

“We walked onto this little island here, and we were pretty shocked at what we found.” Skulls. Human. Lots of ‘em. “Human skulls,” MacRae continues. “They’re literally everywher ...