Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (June 23-September 20, 2009). Unearthed from four ancient sites, the show's 228 works (including more than 100 pieces from the Bactrian trove ...

“It is a most remarkable place,” says archaeologist John Russell of the Massachusetts College of Art ... was breaking with the ancient religious traditions of Mesopotamia.

Sheikh Hamad Bin Abdullah al-Thani of Qatar has won a court case against the New York- and Geneva-based Phoenix Ancient Art gallery over an allegedly forged statuette of the goddess Nike ...

PALMYRA, Syria — This ancient city, once one of the most important ... The temple where he is standing — Baalshamin — was dedicated to a Mesopotamian god of the sky and was one of the ...

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...

The second part of the installation focuses on the contemporary city and asks how we can learn from those ancient practices ... in show” award of the Golden Lion. “What does it mean to live ...

In the Museum of Plaster Casts of Ancient Art you can discover about 2000 full-sized replicas of Greek and Roman sculptures - right in the center of Munich. Around 2000 replicas of Greek and Roman ...