CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...
LUXOR, Egypt, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Amidst the ancient temples and tombs in Egypt's Luxor, skilled artisans continue to transform alabaster -- a luminous stone once cherished by pharaohs -- into ...
In a surprise silver lining to Islamic State's (IS) 2016 destruction of the Mashki Gate in Mosul, Iraq—one of the monumental gates to the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh—archaeologists have ...