In the West, the practice of exchanging rings to mark a betrothal dates back to ancient Rome, when noble families would trade ...

Add in a beautiful art style that disguises its lesser budget ... Mirage delivers an engrossing, more tightly focused adventure set in Baghdad. Stealth and parkour are at the heart of the ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory ...

The artifacts were excavated from a city dating back to the third millennium B.C.E. by researchers from Iraq and the British ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

Evidence from ancient Mesopotamia reveals that bureaucratic ... whose location remains unknown but is thought the be near modern Baghdad. The Akkadian empire lasted for 150 years, ending with ...

What happens when Western artistic perspectives encounter the timeless beauty of Chinese ink painting? China Daily invites ...

Science has already proven that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were often painted in warm colors, and now a Danish study has revealed that some were also perfumed.

The myth that the statues of ancient Greece and Rome were white was created over time and upheld in part to serve racist ...

Culling ancient works from the Asia Society’s collection, Rina Banerjee, Howardena Pindell, and Byron Kim look to the past to challenge ideas of identity and authenticity.

This research, the result of collaboration between the Parco Archeologico di Pompei and various Italian universities, represents a significant advancement in understanding the painting techniques used ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Hassan al-Shaibani (L) and Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein (R) hold a joint press conference after their meeting in Baghdad, Iraq on March 14, 2025. Iraqi Foreign ...