The ancient kingdom of Rwanda had a rich tradition of ritual objects that were integral to both the royal court and spiritual practice. These sacred items carried deep symbolic and ceremonial ...

Professor Kenichi Yano of Ritsumeikan University emphasized the discovery's unique significance: ...

Pompeii's ruins hide a story more ancient than Rome itself. Explore how Egyptian culture, carried on the tide of Alexander's ...

San Francisco's Asian Art Museum returns four ancient Thai bronzes to Thailand, ending their possession since the 1960s.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) has returned 41 ancient polychrome terracotta reliefs to their original home in Düver ...

Concrete was the foundation of the ancient Roman empire. It enabled Rome's storied architectural revolution as well as the ...

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Western museums are returning the Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, but a state-of-the-art museum to display them is still a long way ...

The discovery of the settlements over the years has led to a new understanding of the Asia Minor and Anatolia regions.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

Ancient artifacts recently emerged from Norway's melting mountains, surprising archaeologists with a remarkably preserved ...

Researchers uncovered rare azurite traces on a Final Paleolithic artifact, overturning assumptions that early Europeans used ...