In ancient Rome, high-ranking generals and politicians used unique perfumes to set themselves apart — and now scientists have ...

The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

One of these things is to do with anytime some academic type puts an oil painting in an X-ray machine or something like that ...

Over 2,000 years later and Cleopatra's Pools at the site of ancient Hierapolis is still popular with visitors who wish to ...

There are so many things to see in Luxor, making this one of the most dynamic cities in all of Egypt. Don't miss out on Luxor!

The biggest David Hockney retrospective ever will be on display at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, while over at the Musée ...

No painting in the world is more famous or valuable than Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Mona Lisa’. The portrait of Lisa Gherardini, a woman with an enigmatic smile, this painting is hailed as the ...

Yet the Ptolemies also embraced the syncretism of ancient Greek and Egyptian religious beliefs ... It is probable that this painting of Cleopatra with red hair and her unique facial characteristics, ...

With so much genuinely ancient stuff to occupy his attention ... It’s not just the architecture — a charming confection of Victorian stateliness, Art Deco angularity and wild Moorish flourishes. There ...

Lee, 47, was one of 10 artists assisting the abstract painter Julie Mehretu on a large-scale commission for the lobby of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that would lead to the creation of ...

In the past 20 years, 280 buildings in this 2,300-year-old port city — known for being the birthplace of Cleopatra and the ancient home of the famed Library of Alexandria — have collapsed due ...

The Manendragarh-Chirmiri-Bharatpur district in Raipur is rich with ancient rock paintings, including those in Tiloli, Ara, Bhawarkhoh, Lawahori, and Sonhari. These paintings, comparable to the ...