A sketch rescued in a dumpster in Hudson, New York is a long lost sketch by renowned English portrait painter George Romney.

At a time of increasing anxiety about physical anatomy, figurative sculptors are breathing new life into one of the world’s ...

A sale of AI art at famed auction house Christie’s could change how we think about creativity – if it’s not cancelled first.

Thiebaud’s career originated with a focus on illustration and cartoons, which aligned with the emergence of Pop Art in the ...

Foreign institutions and collectors are returning artifacts with deep spiritual meaning for Cambodians. Where and how to ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

The history of Ethiopian Christianity dates back to mid-4th century AD, when the ruler of the Aksumite Empire ʿEzana converted to Christianity ... emotional repositories of the memories, history, art, ...

It is important to make note of the expansion of the Persian Empire into Egypt during this time. Persian Era of Cyrene Coin minted in Achaemenid Barce. Credit: LouisAragon / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY ...

“If you speak of conquests, you have to speak about the Achaemenid Empire. The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier, so when Alexander came to conquer the Middle East he had to ...

Essentially a novel based on his life, it was translated into languages including Arabic and Persian — “every language in the world,” according to Pierre Briant, professor emeritus at the Collège de ...

The history of Persian rugs spans over 2,500 years to the Achaemenid Empire, with the Pazyryk carpet (5th century BCE) ...