"We weren't actually looking for a pot of gold." Archaeologists were recently excavating a house from the third century B.C.E ...

A new exhibition at the Jewish Museum explores the cult of Queen Esther, whose story won the hearts of Dutch Masters and some ...

The first realistic depiction of an outpatient clinic in ancient Greece is on a drawing on a small vase created in Athens around 470 B.C. now on display at the Louvre Museum in France. The drawing on ...

The traces of ancient roads survive across the globe, revealing how connections were forged from region to region and country ...

Reconfigured spaces, updated trims, a new color, artisan railings and more, help to bring an architecturally confused home ...

The Palace Museum in Beijing, which was called the Forbidden City, is an important repository of China's 5,000-year-old ...

Eschewing Persian version, Jewish Museum extends art curation scepter to masters like Rembrandt, who saw Esther's heroism ...

Before our modern borders, the oldest countries in the Middle East were out here building pyramids, writing the first laws, ...

Domestic cats first stepped paw in China more than a millennia ago, a new study has found. Their route in? Quite likely, the ...

Born in Christopol in 1931, Gubaidulina’s intensely spiritual music marked her out as the most important Russian composer of ...