Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, are credited for many firsts in human history, including writing, urbanism and the state. Among these ...

From gruesome portraits to creepy critters, these are the paintings that have stayed with our experts long after their first glimpse.

By its imagining of the Temple of Solomon, Bronstein’s work can’t help but be pulled by the gravity of political discourse ...

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An international team of archaeologists and historians has completed an extensive analysis of a rare leather armor waistcoat recovered from the grave of an ancient horse-riding soldier in Northwest ...

An oil painting by Pablo Picasso, unseen by the public for more than 80 years, will go under the hammer in Paris next month. The painting, “Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat,” depicts French ...

Argentine prosecutors have charged the daughter of a fugitive Nazi officer with attempting to hide an 18th-century Italian painting that was looted during World War II and had not been seen publicly ...

An Argentine federal court announced Wednesday that authorities had recovered the long-lost "Portrait of a Lady," an 18th-century work by the Italian painter Giuseppe Ghislandi that was looted by the ...

It took 80 years to track down and a week of international intrigue, but a long-lost 18th-century painting looted by the Nazis has been recovered after it was spotted in a recent Argentinian real ...

The daughter of a Nazi leader who died in Argentina has been put on house arrest after a painting believed to have been stolen from a Jewish art dealer during World War II emerged in a recent real ...

A new civilization for your favorite military leader to rule over. Assyria comes in as a new Antiquity Age civilization, meaning you can kick off your campaign with strong military bonuses. It goes ...