Egypt marked International Museum Day this year with temporary exhibitions, educational programmes, and a range of cultural ...

The objects themselves are "gorgeous": we see much "lively, expressive, dynamic sculpture", from "rudimentary" yakshas and ...

An archaeological dig on the island of Paros, renowned for its marble, has discovered an ancient Greek sculpture workshop.

An ancient granite pebble included indentations resembling a face, its nose a red dot. A study says it may have had symbolic ...

Egypt has announced the discovery of ancient Luxor tombs, heightening excitement for the full opening of the Grand Egyptian ...

A ritual and funerary landscape is emerging in northwestern Africa, revealing connections with the Mediterranean, Atlantic ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey ... and was fascinated by the beauty of the sculptures he found there. In the millennia following ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, centered in present-day Iraq ... RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier / Art Resource, NY The earliest known writing emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 3400 BC, originating as a ...