Both stories require the viewer to unthink certain reflexive habits when it comes to ancient art, including classical ideas of beauty and the supposedly self-sufficient perfection of ideal works ...

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) has finalized an agreement to transfer ownership of its ancient "Statue of a Man" to Libya. Officials from the CMA and the Libyan government held a ...

Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War 2,500 years ago. His advice? Don’t charge blindly into battle. Know yourself. Know your enemy. Win before the first sword is drawn. Today, business leaders aren’t ...

Workers installing an underground drainage system beneath a Buddhist temple in northeastern Thailand have uncovered a trove of ancient Buddhist ... period Buddhist art, a tradition tied to the ...

Proceedings in motion after Pope's death, a monthly snapshot not representative of police recruitment and concern of decline in teacher numbers. People keen to learn about the ancient art of ...

A Classics researcher at the University of Cincinnati is using today's technology to learn more about the mass production and placement of votives in ancient Greece. UC College of Arts and ...

In his study, Dr. Graur reviewed 125 images of the sky-goddess Nut (pronounced "Noot"), found among 555 ancient Egyptian coffins dating back nearly 5,000 years. Combining astronomy with Egyptology ...

An installation view of “Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection.” Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a ...

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Nut is the goddess of the sky.In funerary art, she typically appears as a nude, star-spangled woman, her body protectively arching up and over the earth god Geb ...