Archaeologists are piecing together vivid 1,800-year-old frescoes from “thousands upon thousands upon thousands” of plaster fragments, with no picture on the box to guide them.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East today. A region that once birthed mathematics, medicine, astronomy, and ...

Though it appears confounding and disjointed to modern eyes, The Garden of Earthly Delights (c. 1490–1510) is as consistent ...

Scholars say handwriting errors in a 900-year-old document changes the understanding of "The Song of Wade", a lost English poem.

In a lavish Victorian-era parlor, a woman in a lace-trimmed dress half rises from the lap of a reclining man, her gaze ...