Francis has broken with recent papal tradition by choosing to be buried in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore instead of St ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Imagine wandering through the blazing, sun-baked stretches of the American Southwest, where life seems impossible, yet the land teems with some of nature’s most astonishing survivors. Among these, the ...

In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt. The ...

With their flood of light and color, Yi Ming’s paintings have sold for high prices at charity auctions and have brought the ...

A sweeping new archaeological discovery could fundamentally reshape what we know about early human intelligence and cultural ...

"Ming and Qing Aesthetics" decodes the architectural symbolism embedded in the ridge-beast arrays of palace roofs, revealing their encoded hierarchies through side-by-side displays of real artifacts ...

In addition to the two taotie statues, which eventually come to life and attack the film’s protagonist, “Creation of the Gods ...