An inscribed gilt-bronze figure of Buddha 4th - 6th century 四至六世紀　鎏金銅立佛像 available at MINEO HATA A Life in Art on artnet ...

A mans head and neck are shown, and his neck ends at the base in an uneven way which seems broken. He has a square face, a narrow mouth with full lips, a wide flat nose, and narrow round eyes which ...

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered ...

Archeologists in Croatia have discovered remnants of a Greek settlement called Epetion, previously known only from ancient ...

Some of the reproductions of her art are a bit blurry, but the effect is breathtaking ... Ecclesiastes), the majority have settled on a later date in the Hellenistic period due to similarities with ...

Graffiti is something we are very familiar with, but how many of us know that this form of art was widely spread in ancient Greece?

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

The 'A New History' exhibition in Madrid showcases Göbeklitepe's remarkable legacy, as Isabel Munoz connects its ancient ...

A promotion session for the English version of historical Chinese book From the Mediterranean to the Yellow River at ...

The sculpture is a monument to the power of love. The lighthearted motif goes back to the Hellenistic period (323–30 BCE). Hellenistic sculpture, followed by Roman, explored a great variety of ...

While the 'other thing' is just as unkosher as oysters or cheeseburgers, the taboo around it practically delineates Judaism ...