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

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

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An ancient painting first exhibited in 1908 at the Royal Academy will be sold by Waverley Borough Council with up to £100,000 from the proceeds going to help fund the restoration of Farnham Museum.

Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer" sold at Sotheby's for $236.4 million. The portrait is the most expensive work ever sold at auction at Sotheby's, blowing past its original estimate. Art ...

Egyptian officials are frantically searching for an ancient limestone painting taken from an ancient tomb — the latest in a series of high-profile artifact thefts. Mohamed Ismail, secretary-general of ...

“José María Velasco: A View of Mexico” is a compact exhibition with a lot to convey. Encompassing just 24 artworks, it introduces visitors to a giant of Mexico’s culture, a late-19th-century painter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Egyptian antiquities workers dig at the site of the Step Pyramid of Djoser in Saqqara, 24 kms. (15 miles) southwest of ...

CAIRO (AP) — A limestone pharaonic painting has gone missing from Egypt's famed Saqqara necropolis, becoming the latest artifact to disappear in a country known for its rich and lengthy history. The ...

A collection of artifacts has been found in one of the largest and most complex Chu-era burials ever found. This cache is revealing new things about the birth of China. The lacquered head unearthed at ...