Early Irish medieval impact on Europe explored in new National Museum of Ireland exhibition "Words on the Wave: Ireland and St. Gallen in Early Medieval Europe" opens in Dublin on May 30 and runs ...

The terracotta warriors weigh up to 600 pounds. Due to their age and significance, they must be handled with the utmost finesse.

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art has deaccessioned fragments of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts (fourth–third century B.C.E.) from its collection and formally transferred them to the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient Chinese artefacts known as the Zidanku Silk ...

Only one in around every 100 pictures in the National Gallery’s collection of approximately 2,400 works of art – some postcard-sized, others vast – is by a woman.

The National Gallery is celebrating its bicentenary with the acquisition of a most mysterious painting, an altarpiece with the Virgin and Child and two saints, dating from 1500-10.

From the location of the “place of skulls” to ancient Jewish burial rites, here’s what archaeologists do—and don’t—know about the truth behind the Easter story.

All that glitters is gold in the National Gallery’s exhibit on late medieval art in Siena There’s a reassuring sense that even in the 14th century, there was a lot going on well outside the ...

Archaeologists who spent years poring over images of stars and leaves have declared that a cluster of rock-art sites in Venezuela is the center of an ancient and previously unknown culture.

Art Thieves Blew Up a Dutch Museum’s Door to Steal an Ancient Golden Helmet From Romania The blast took place in the middle of the night, allowing the burglars to abscond with four valuable ...