A forgotten object in a museum revealed the oldest blue pigment in Europe, pushing back the use of this color by 13,000 years ...

A discovery beneath Kolsåstoppen, a forested hill in eastern Norway, is drawing new attention to rock carvings created more ...

There was a time when culture assumed the future would remember it. Perfume bottles were born from that same instinct.

We spoke to Phil Toledano, also known as Mr Enthusiast, about the striking $10,200 timepiece ...

From young conservationists in Alwar to determined collectors from abroad, new players are shaking up the cultural landscape ...

Found hiding beneath a chicken sketch, the faded outline proves ancient humans were capable of reflecting on their existence, scientists say The faint outline of a hand in a cave in Indonesia's ...

Nestled along the Connecticut River in the Upper Valley region, Hanover offers that rare combination of intellectual ...

Around 10,000 people are expected to read the last words ever written by Mary, Queen of Scots, as her poignant final letter goes on first public display in nearly a decade. Mary wrote the letter at ...

The standout images are ships, some carved upright, others upside down, packed with small human figures whose heads are unusually clearly defined. Fjeld and his daughter also spotted the “sole of a ...

Archaeologists in Mexico have uncovered an incredibly well-preserved Zapotec tomb dating back to the early seventh century.

For years, the oldest widely accepted cave art came from Spain, where mineral crusts dated paintings to more than 64,000 years. That work also relied on uranium decay in crusts, so it offered a ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic ...