Archaeologists discovered rare paintings, showing Helen of Troy and other Greek figures, in the lost Roman city of Pompeii 2000 years after the deadly volcanic eruption. The paintings were revealed on ...

In July 2024, an international team announced an amazing discovery in Sulawesi: cave paintings at Leang Karampuang from at least 51,200 years ago. The images depict three human‑like figures ...

New technology has helped experts make an "extraordinary discovery hidden beneath" an old painting. Entitled "Stourhead in its Infancy", the 18th Century oil painting was "long believed to be the ...

On a late August afternoon at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, professors of art history Stephanie Leone and John Lansdowne ’07 were studying a thirteenth-century painting of the Madonna and child, ...

Archaeologists in Spain have come across an extraordinary series of Paleolithic-era paintings in Basque Country’s Atxurra cave that they estimate date as far back as 14,000 years. The 70 or so animal ...

MEDORA, N.D (KFYR) – Theodore Roosevelt certainly left his mark on the small western town of Medora, but so did a man known ...

Art might be hundreds of years old, but sometimes it feels surprisingly modern. From paintings that look like movie stills to portraits that could easily pass as memes today, people online have been ...

This month’s Smithsonian podcasts include a deep dive into India’s monsoon weather patterns and discussion of animals in flight Chris Klimek In “Monsoon Mood,” the latest episode of the Smithsonian ...

As the Princeton University Art Museum undergoes renovations, its old master paintings remain behind closed doors. Still, even in storage, such works are the inspiration behind a new show, which ...