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The most famous archaeological relic in the world has been damaged during a botched cleaning attempt. After being knocked off, the blue and gold braided beard on King Tut's burial mask was "hastily" glued back on with an inappropriate adhesive, damaging the item even further.
From ancient citadels to the Great Sphinx, you can now explore Egypt's wonders in the digital world
Rosie Weetch, curator and Craig Williams, illustrator, British Museum One of the most enjoyable things about working with the British Museum’s Anglo-Saxon collection is having the opportunity to st...
The amount of ornate detail practically begs for these to become reality. Designer Nick Adelman challenged himself to encompass different cultures' art in a fashion medium.
A newly cleaned Vatican painting, dating to 1494, may be the first depiction of Native Americans.
Painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, which depicts Isabella d'Este, discovered in Swiss bank vault
This clip gives you a taste of what Gilgamesh, one of the earliest known works of literature, sounds like in its mother tongue, Akkadian.
About three-fourth of the hand stencils found in caves in France and Spain were probably made by females.
An art dealer was arrested as part of a scheme to sell dozens of forged masterpieces by artists like Rothko, Pollock and de Kooning, the authorities say.
One of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries ever made
The rich and famous are notorious for the bizarre demands they sometimes place on their underlings.
Are distracting smartphones making us more stupid?
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Using powerful ground-penetrating radar, investigators working around Stonehenge have detected a trove of previously unknown burial mounds, chapels, shrines, pits — and most remarkable of all — a massive megalithic monument made up of more than 50 giant stones buried along a 1,082-foot-long c-shaped enclosure.
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This week, Egyptologists happened upon the burial plot of Khonso-Im-Heb, the Sam Adams of antiquity.
Put Rembrandt on your report, Twitter profile or toilet paper
Director of Vatican museums says measures will reduce grime and humidity damaging Michelangelo's paintings
Banksy’s latest work is a Nazi whose raising big bucks for charity.
Previously unknown painting of Christ once owned by German chancellor identified as work of 16th-century Venetian artist
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Collectors, museum directors, curators and others take the temperature of contemporary art at an unusually thought-provoking Venice Biennale.
Archaeologists have uncovered nearly 5,000 cave paintings at 11 different sites in Mexico, the likely product of early hunter-gatherers. What’s even more remarkable is that the area was previously thought to be uninhabited.
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