The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

The RISD Museum collaborated with Adelphi Paper Hangings in upstate New York to reproduce one of the original French designs ...

A fragment of a 13th-century manuscript containing tales of Merlin and King Arthur, hidden within a 16th-century property ...

Here’s what we loved at TEFAF Maastricht 2025 (on until 20 March), from surrealist Claude Lalanne’s daybed to Ancient ...

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For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Over a million years ago, ancient human ancestors sat down to shave flakes off bones, producing a tool with a carefully created sharp edge. According to Jackson Njau, an archaeologist at ...

Study co-lead Professor Tim Johnson, from Curtin University, said the discovery significantly challenged previous assumptions about our planet's ancient history. "Before our discovery, the oldest ...

The findings come from a study of bone tools discovered at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and dated to around 1.5 million years ago. The discovery joins other finds — such as a 1.4-million-year-old ...

Later, a peristyle was added to the courtyard, the central part of which was also paved with marble slabs It was one of several notable libraries in ancient Athens, alongside the Library of Hadrian, ...