A world-renowned Chinese conservator and a Somerville conservation studio completed a complicated restoration of a Chinese ...

Experts have long assumed that a painting at London's National Gallery is one of many replicas of an original Dürer portrait. Now, a new book claims that this cracked copy is the real deal ...

The remarkable Roman Egypt-era work represents some the earliest realistic portrait paintings still in existence today.

Scientists have discovered what they say is the earliest known rock art, in a cave in Indonesia. They say the image dates to more than 67,000 years ago.

Though it now exists only as a centimeters-wide fragment, the stencil is a landmark find.

Archaeologists with the Sicán Archaeological Project, a decades-long study of a lost pre-Incan culture, unearthed a tomb and its contents along the northern coast of Peru in the early 1990s. Amongst ...

Throughout history, communication wasn’t as effortless as it is today. In today’s world, you can connect with people in every part of the world within seconds and access an almost infinite amount of ...