The pieces in this exhibition convey a great sense of what it must have been like to encounter these works in their ...

One of the world’s most famous religious buildings, Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia was extraordinary when it was built in the sixth ...

Vendors in Indonesia sold keychains and fans bearing his image. A message board to the late pope was covered in writings from ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

This Celtic celebration of fire and fertility culminates in the marriage of the May Queen and the Green Man—and the arrival ...

In Greek mythology, Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ...

"The notion of a Roman sculpture show might ... it's suspected that many artists in ancient Rome were Greeks, some enslaved, ...

From HBO’s series House of the Dragon to Rebecca Yarros’s Empyrean book series, dragons continue to fascinate. Yarros’s ...

The Hagia Sophia remains a highly popular tourist destination, attracting millions of travelers. Here is a detailed look at ...

The Roman Empire, for example, with its own pantheon of gods, played a significant role in this transformation and the eventual death of the Ancient Greek gods from the collective memory. As Roman ...

For more than four decades, Guo has been a living bridge between the ancient art of Hakka bamboo carving and the modern world. His hands, ridged with calluses and scored by decades of nicks ...