It’s a new handle for an ancient village on the island of Djerba, where street art has transformed the weather-beaten walls into a sprawling open-air gallery. I’d long been meaning to visit ...

“Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art,” opening at the Metropolitan ... near their ancestors’ homes and follow some of the ancient traditions. As co-curator Oswaldo Chinchilla Mazariegos ...

In an archaeological first, German researchers have found a depiction of major Assyrian deities carved onto a relief.

Found within the innermost coffin upon the mummified body, King Tut’s death mask has become a world-recognized icon of ancient Egypt ... in the Fight Against AI Art Theft In a Bid to Become ...

The ancient Egyptians had no word for art and no concept of art for art's sake ... replaced graceful images with shocking new pictures. Kings and queens had skinny chests and shoulders, and ...

An ancient gravesite ... Darius the Great, King of the Persians, came up with the first art political logo, with Alexander the Great later expanding on the concept by imprinting his face on ...

revealing the tomb to be that of Thutmose II—and the final missing pharaoh’s tomb from Ancient Egypt’s 18th dynasty. The tomb was discovered near the Valley of the Kings in West Luxor.

Archaeologists excavating the ruins of an ancient Assyrian king’s throne room in Iraq found a massive 26,000-pound carving, a university said. Photo from Schmitt via Heidelberg University ...