A 42,000-year-old ochre “crayon” found in Ukraine may prove that Neanderthals were artists.

On the eve of a cutting-edge exhibition at London’s Somerset House, the choreographer wants us to unlock our physical ...

Luc Godard, Florence and the Machine releases a new record, Italian treasures tell the story of Emperor Trajan’s rule, and ...

Added to these are a Braque of the first water, a Toulouse-Lautrec, a Modigliani, a Redon, a Sisley, and a Pissarro. Then there are about thirty lighter pieces ranging from Constantin Guys to Ingres.

Altay Prefecture, located in the northwest frontier of China, sits in the northeast part of Ili Kazak autonomous prefecture in the north of Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. It borders Mongolia to the ...

The city was named after Aurangzeb, and his tomb lies in Khuldabad. There are many things to do and umpteen historic places ...

Despite the fact that we know that Neanderthals were capable of producing jewellery and using coloured pigments, there has ...

Ochre artefacts found in Crimea show signs of having been used for drawing, adding to evidence that Neanderthals used ...

Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

The institution has doubled the size of its former space to display more of its collection of 117,000 works, plus newly ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...