Life-sized statues of a man and a woman were discovered in a tomb in Pompeii, researchers said, thousands of years after a deadly volcano wiped out the ancient Roman city . Researchers say the nearly ...

A sneak peek at upcoming events in County, including street fairs, festivals, concerts, performances, art shows, library ...

A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The Canaanite scarab amulet, which dates to the Middle Bronze Age, was ...

The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the ...

The figures appear to represent a married couple. Experts think the woman, who is holding laurel leaves, may have been a ...

Since the late 1800s, women have studied Ancient Egypt, but it wasn't always easy to enter the profession. Here are 8 trailblazers who led the way.

The famed museum recently returned a 12th-century Buddha sculpture that it says was stolen from the Kathmandu Valley. However, the institute’s announcement failed to mention the statue had once ...

French visitors are coming to Washington with an old U.S. battle flag and a plan to rekindle memories of the American soldiers who rescued their region during World War I.

History buffs will go nuts for the beautifully preserved 19th-century buildings dotting the downtown area. These aren’t ...

Well before the French-Canadian parish completed the present upper church in the south end of Fall River in 1906, the ...

It also calls on the Secretary of the Interior to restore public monuments, statues and other ... who write books. There's so ...

Mar 27, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Grace Byron In the poet’s recent musical projects, he has pushed the sonic potential of verse to its limits. Mar 26, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Nate Wooley Her ...