A Minnesota-based liberal arts university reportedly fired a professor who showed students two paintings of the Prophet Muhammad after a group of Muslim students complained.. The incident occurred ...

Researchers using a cutting-edge technique have discovered hidden details in two ancient Egyptian paintings in the Theban Necropolis, near the River Nile, that date back more than 3,000 years. The ...

Conservation experts almost gave up when they first saw the severely damaged wall paintings they had come to rescue in the ancient city of Petra. But then they discovered 2,000-year-old ...

The paintings are located in tomb chapels of the Theban Necropolis. They date to around the reign of Ramesses II (between 1330 B.C.E. and 1069 B.C.E.) ...

Portable chemical imaging technology can reveal hidden details in ancient Egyptian paintings, according to a study published July 12, 2023 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Philippe Martinez ...

It is modestly sized, standing 22 meters wide, 3.5 meters high and 3 meters deep, and is decorated with an array of ancient cave paintings dating back to different eras.

The once-resplendent Temple of Bel, dedicated to the principal deity of this ancient metropolis, has been reduced to a single sculpted arch rising gracefully from a jagged pile of tumbled columns a… ...

The human cost of the Mosul offensive – and of Islamic State’s brutal two-year occupation – is not yet known. But the Iraqi city’s cultural treasures have already suffered a grave toll.