In a significant breakthrough at the San Isidro archaeological site in El Salvador, archaeologists uncovered five ancient ...

Eric and Wendy Schmidt and the Sorbonne will fund a new program to digitize Delacroix’s papers and identify other artists who ...

Swerve the usual Mexican holiday destinations for something new and exciting, says Suzanne Bearne, as she explores Mérida’s vibrant streets, sublime food and lively communities ...

The Maya civilization, one of the most sophisticated pre-Columbian cultures, flourished across present-day Mexico, Guatemala, ...

This mural, blending Singaporean and Western iconography, was painted over six days by Spanish artist Mark Rios, 37, alongside four fine arts students from Lasalle College of the Arts, University ...

Work to dismantle the Black Lives Matter Plaza street mural in Washington, DC, that was put up in 2020 following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor began on Monday. Reconstruction at ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

Mural of Don Diego Pérez Méndez, who was mayor of San Juan La Laguna from 1972 to 1974. One of many myths surrounding Lake Atitlán tells of an ancient Maya sorceress who forged a magic ring for ...

scholars use depictions on painted murals, ceramic vessels, stone stelas, and clay figurines dating to this period to learn what the ancient Maya wore. Many of these images show the Maya engaging ...

A fragment of the organic glass found inside the skull of the deceased individual in Herculaneum. Credit: Pier Paolo Petrone A rare organic glass was found inside a skull from Herculaneum’s 79 CE ...

Behind several crumbling columns, the Dionysian mural spans three walls of an ancient banquet hall from Insula 10 Regio IX in central Pompeii. A bacchante depicted as a hunter with a slain goat ...