Additional work, including the installation of the dragon’s head, has nearly been completed on the sculpture in front of The ...

Dragons were a symbol of luck and protection from natural disasters during the Tang Dynasty, archaeologists said.

“For the Classic Maya, in many ways, clothing defined personhood,” says Alyce de Carteret, a fellow in Art of the Ancient ... sometimes worn as a cape with head and paws still attached.

“But I have a deep affection for the Honolulu Museum of Art.” Norton-Westbrook took over as head of HoMA in 2020, making her the third female director in the history of HoMA, which celebrates its ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...

A video uploaded by a social media user with the handle @ciarabarry10 is making rounds on the internet and shows a troop of baboons exploring someone's property in Cape Town. In the footage, two of ...

The nailed head ritual may have been as a way to intimidate their enemies and celebrate their ancestors. The findings published in the April 2025 issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The chair of the Sydney Writers’ Festival has quit on the eve of the annual event over concerns that it fails to present a range ...

The boy found the handgun under the driver's seat of his parents' car. A 4-year-old boy named Chosen Morris has died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with a handgun he found in his ...

An analysis of the origins of seven severed skulls with nails through them shows that some people treated this way in Iron Age Spain were local while others came from afar.

They’re evident in mythic stories, including those of shapeshifting between human and baboon. Oral history and rock art suggest there wasn’t an inevitable hostility between baboons and humans.