Over 8,000 years ago, early farming communities in northern Mesopotamia were already thinking mathematically—long before ...

Hebrew University researchers uncovered 8,000-year-old pottery showing floral patterns built on precise geometric ...

The art world moved forward with glowing renovations to some of New York City’s cultural jewels, as well as sweeping surveys ...

The British Museum has launched a new scheme that will see it share artifacts in its collection with museums in former ...

A new study published in the Journal of World Prehistory reveals that some of humanity's earliest artistic representations of ...

New research reveals that humanity’s earliest botanical art on ancient pottery featured complex mathematical patterns and ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

An art lover’s view of the city museums For a medium-sized capital city, Lisbon has a proliferation of public art collections ...

Rising from the plains of southern Iraq, the Great Ziggurat of Ur was built around 2050 BCE as a sacred link between heaven and earth. Dedicated to the moon god Nanna, it stood at the heart of one of ...

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

Clockwise from top left: wooden box, embossed gold sheet, and gold fragments(Christian Eckmann/Copyright: RGZM, DAI Cairo and University of Tübingen) Although the ...

The Splendors of the Al-Sabah Collection from Kuwait will run until March next year at the Guangdong Museum, according to the ...