Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

The artworks, part of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, help shed light on a traditional ...

A 30,000-year-old vulture feather represents a "two-for-the-price-of one" discovery: the fossil itself, and the first ...

Unused paints are generally rare finds for archaeologists — but not at Pompeii. Take a look at “almost the entire palette of an ancient painter.” ...

A recent study offers new insights into the pigments used by ancient Roman artists in Pompeii, revealing how they mixed raw ...

Research led by Jilin University and Texas A&M University has documented the first known case of cinnabar-stained teeth in ...

Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.

By 2022, the search had yielded an abundance of artifacts such as pottery, stone tools, and bones. An analysis determined ...

Ruchi Atreya, the creative force behind the exhibition, was born and raised in Pachmarhi, a part of the Satpura Reserve Forest area. Her deep-rooted connection to the region has driven her extensive ...

Our earliest mammalian ancestors avoided the dominant dinosaurs by only coming out at night and having uniformly dark, ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

Hidden beneath Malta, the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum is a 6,000-year-old underground labyrinth that may have served as a temple.