In the First Cemetery of Athens lies the sculpture of The Sleeping Woman, portraying Sofia Afentaki and created by Giannoulis ...

High-tech tools have uncovered the earliest known silk seat-cushion and hidden details in iconic funerary art at Mawangdui, an ancient Chinese tomb ...

Greece has approved the restoration of the Lion of Amphipolis, a monumental marble sculpture dating to the 4th century BC.

An international team of scientists from the University of Barcelona, the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Spain, and the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage of Morocco discovered three ...

Archaeologists in Morocco’s Tangier Peninsula have uncovered ancient stone-lined burials, striking rock art, and towering ...

Unraided crypts are hard to come by. And yet in 1968, soldiers stumbled upon the imperial family tombs of a Han dynasty ...

The return of the Mimbres collection complies with requirements of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act ...

According to naval records, Paul Gauguin’s eyes were brown. In early self-portraits, the French artist painted himself with a ...

Archaeologists working in the Tangier Peninsula, in northwest Morocco, have discovered ancient cemeteries, rock art and ...

New look at Hellenistic-era graves shows these horizontal niche burials first appeared in Phoenician cities a century before ...

Ancient artefacts from Gaza amphorae, statues, mosaics, funerary steles and more tell the story of 5,000 years of a ...