The ancient Benin kingdom got the brass for its art by trade. What it most lucratively traded was enslaved human beings. Deadria Farmer-Paellmann is a descendant of some of those enslaved human ...

South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, including blood, porcupine quills, and ostrich eggshells.

Travel Ancient Christian figurines discovered in 1,500-year-old desert graves Rare discovery of well-preserved artifacts shows Israel was a 'crossroads of cultures' 1,500 years ago ...

They feature royal burial grounds in Uganda, ancient rock paintings in Botswana and show bronze casters in Benin City, among other topics and locations—many of them not open to tourism.

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...

Art from ancient Thrace is often flashy and brusque, as befits a warrior tribe. The archaic society was known for the prowess of its soldiers and its brawny militarism.

The Cleveland Museum of Art will return a headless Greco-Roman bronze statue that was pillaged from the ancient city of Bubon in south-central Turkey. The larger-than-life statue of a draped male ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has returned an ancient bronze griffin head stolen nearly a century ago to a museum in southern Greece, the latest ...