Images capture the remarkable variety of petroglyphs etched into rock across a wide swathe of land, from Mongolia to the ...

The ibex is far from a humble mountain goat—it’s one of history’s most enduring artistic symbols. So prolific is its presence in prehistoric art, in fact, that a new study suggests the animal held ...

For centuries, hieroglyphs have helped historians piece together the beliefs, rituals, and everyday lives of ancient ...

Ancient Nubian civilizations practiced something that might shock modern sensibilities - they tattooed the faces of infants and toddlers as young as seven months old. A new study using advanced ...

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

The people who clustered along the Nile River in ancient times didn’t call their land Egypt. They called it Kemet — literally, “the black land,” so named for the fertile soil suffused by nutrients ...

In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

More than 100 ancient Middle Eastern artifacts will be on display at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The gallery reopens on Dec. 18. The Cincinnati Art Museum opens its redesigned Middle East art gallery ...

On a cold winter’s day in 1980, a group of recreational cavers entered a narrow, wet stream passage south of Knoxville, Tennessee. They navigated a slippery mud slope and a tight keyhole through the ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...