Modern technology and research restores an ancient Egyptian woman, Meritamun, creating a unique teaching tool for medicine...
Art
A small portion of a site can yield thousands of objects, adding up to millions of dollars....
Scholars across the globe have joined forces to preserve the beleaguered country’s cultural heritage for all our...
A fortuitous influx of cash launched the Smithsonian’s first art collection. In 1835, through an unlikely turn...
George III never visited Italy. Instead he collected prints, drawings, and guidebooks enabling him to travel virtually...
Damascus is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world. To understand the importance of...
Persian gained prominence as a literary language and a lingua franca—a common cultural language—about a thousand years...
Leonardo da Vinci emphasized the naturalness of the relationship of Jesus and Mary in his art, while...
Sri Lankan art is not nearly as well known in the West as the arts of neighboring...
The architecture of ancient Sri Lanka displays a rich diversity. Introduction The architecture of ancient Sri Lanka displays a rich diversity,...
The shifting status of cultural symbols reveals a lot about who we are and what we value....
The discovery of lapis lazuli pigment preserved in the dental calculus of a religious woman in Germany...
The codex didn’t catch on until surprisingly late in the ancient world. By Benjamin HarnettClassics Scholar A...
Jews living in Europe were easy, early targets for Crusaders while life was comparatively tranquil in Islamic...
After the building that symbolized ‘all that is Russian’ went up in flames, the czar scrambled to...
The Notre Dame Cathedral wasn’t static. The design, as with most cathedrals, kept changing to keep up...
The first Hindu temples were built from rock-cut caves. By Mark CartwrightHistorian Introduction Hindu architecture evolved over...
As Leonardo da Vinci found centuries ago, scholars of art, design, engineering and science can work together...
Dead five centuries, Leonardo retains a rock star’s fame, well known around the world by just one...
Artists suddenly became soldiers on the front to win the hearts and minds of the American public....
Johannes Gutenberg printed his first Bible in 1455, and the first published sailing directions appeared thirty-five years...
The earliest cave paintings here are about 30,000 years old. Introduction The Bhimbetka rock shelters are an archaeological site...
He considered it the most democratic of arts and a crucial aid in the quest to end...
It has meant different things to different people at different times, which is part of its genius....
French artisans and craftsmen began constructing the Statue in France under Auguste Bartholdi’s direction. The Early Stages...
Versailles was the location of two seismic shifts in political culture. Ten million tourists flock to Versailles...
Examining the cultural heritage of Early Modern Europe and its influence in contemporary thought. By Angel Solis,...
Puzzling questions are the focus of the exhibition Spectacular Mysteries: Renaissance Drawings Revealed. By Tristan BravinderSocial Media...
What place does the paper book have in our increasingly all-digital present? What place does the paper...
The symbols used in Norse mythology had to do not only with supernatural entities but also with...