Chinese miniature art with its uninterrupted centuries-old tradition could play a key role in revitalizing this ancient craft ...

STORY Collaboration with China important to Turkish miniature art revival Turkish artistSHOOTING TIME Dec 27 2024DATELINE Dec 31 2024LENGTH 0 ...

One of the most famous and commercially successful European artists of the 19th century, Gérôme was heralded in his own time as a history painter and a visual storyteller, bringing the worlds of ...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered 13 ancient mummies with gold tongues and ...

The ancient Egyptians celebrated the new year in a variety of ways, including having feasts, giving gifts, and exposing statues of gods to sunlight so they could be "regenerated." When you ...

However, the ancient wording, dating back to between 230 and 270 — when the predominant religions in Europe were Judaism and paganism — has been virtually illegible until now. Specialists from ...

Karl Mischke … in discussing the origin of the Arabic numerals, points out that the Roman numerals from 1 to 10 originated from the primitive custom of reckoning on the fingers of the two hands ...

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...

Researchers have deciphered a mysterious inscription hidden within an ancient amulet, uncovering fascinating new insights into the early history of Christianity. The small, silver amulet was ...

They also used strontium isotope analyses on 224 of these individuals, a technique that can reveal the geographical origins and movement of ancient people by comparing the strontium isotopic ...

The chamber holds a stone coffin engraved with the physician’s name and titles, which include "director of medicinal plants" and "chief dentist" Sonja Anderson Piece by piece, experts carefully ...