The Vatican Museums' Laocoön and His Sons is long considered an exemplar of Hellenistic artistry—but what if it was actually ...

Two new shows at the Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University feature Southern California's waters ...

A Queens woman tossed a blood-red liquid on a statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt during an anti-Israel protest outside a Long Island legislative building over the weekend, cops and ...

A statue of Canadian hockey legend Wayne Gretzky ― which stands outside the Edmonton Oilers’ home arena Rogers Place ― was discovered to have been smeared with feces early Friday. CBC News suggested ...

The eighth president, Martin Van Buren, continued the trend of extravagant presidential pets. He was given a pair of pet ...

Each team had a mix of both Puma and Adidas employees and the ball was co-branded. Having Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt as your sister could have deadly consequences. Cleopatra became queen ...

Everyone knows that the Egyptian pyramids are ancient — but exactly how old are they? Historians estimate that they were ...

In ancient Rome, high-ranking generals and politicians used unique perfumes to set themselves apart — and now scientists have ...

Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in ...

Named after the Egyptian city of Luxor, the cinema is covered in colourful mosaics, Sphinx statues, motifs of winged ... while others speculate the 1917 film Cleopatra was a source of inspiration.

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