The distinctive karst landscapes of Guilin in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, particularly its unusual mountains, ...

A decades-long stretch of extremely low precipitation in the 1500s may have spurred cultural changes among the Rapa Nui ...

Science has previously shown that sculptures from ancient Greece and Rome were frequently painted in warm colours. A recent study from Denmark has now discovered that some of these sculptures were ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried ... of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and man, just outside the gates ...

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands ... Which is why the recent discovery of a monumental tomb crowned by life-size sculptures of a woman and ...

New York City is full of free outdoor art that you don't even have to go to a museum to see. Sculptures, murals and photographs can be found in its parks, sidewalks and on its buildings!

since precious few original sculptures from Ancient Greece still exist today; the vast majority of our knowledge of the period comes from Roman copies. The SMK’s extensive collection of plaster ...

Archaeologists have uncovered two near-lifesize sculptures in a Pompeii tomb, shedding new light on the city’s elite. In ancient Rome, women were typically relegated to domestic roles, but being a ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

Based mainly on written evidence of various kinds, it can be shown that in ancient times, the sculptures, which now look pure plain white to us were not only painted, but also regularly perfumed.