A rare mosaic death mask made of jadeite and vessels in the shapes of an owl, a monkey and coati-mundi were found with the ...

Archaeologists in Tajikistan discover a 2,000-year-old jug inscribed with its owner’s name, shedding light on ancient Kushan ...

A “shrink it and pink it” approach has often been used to adapt products for women. But these reimagined objects challenge an ...

While for most people Pluto is the most distant planet in the Solar System, things get a lot more fuzzy once you pass Neptune ...

Narrow standards of beauty, whether they dictate body size or one’s fashion sense, remain powerful in many settings. But ...

As dawn painted the Pacific red, the heavy cruiser Maya prowled the seas as a symbol of Imperial Japan’s naval dominance. In ...

Pinay tennis trailblazer Alex Eala was spotted briefly changing her facial expressions when she looked at a wine bottle in ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

French astronomer Charles Messier was born on June 26, 1730. Messier published the Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. A quiz on his astronomical objects ...

"These faces, these portraits, look at us from the past. Their gaze transports us to the royal court of the ancient and powerful Mayan kingdom." Archaeologists just made an eerie discovery dating back ...

Michael Gordon’s site-specific “The Forest of Metal Objects” surrounds precious art and architecture with the music of chains and flower pots.

Today, AD steps behind the scenes with Bobby Carter to tour the NPR Tiny Desk Concert set. What began in 2008 as a humble, stripped-back performance series for NPR’s blog has grown into a global ...