Stone tablets survive from Mesopotamia bearing laws written in Sumerian around 2100 B.C. Magna Carta, which comprises 63 clauses spelling out in dense legalese some of the basic laws of medieval ...

Either way, one needs to examine the original embroidery still housed in Bayeux, France, to properly analyze the total penis ...

It’s not uncommon for Medieval manuscripts to be bound in animal skins. The hides of deer and goats were used, as were those of boars. But a new analysis of 16 manuscripts held in a French abbey ...

El Paso, TX (KVIA-TV)—The Border Art Residency, an El Paso Community Foundation project, allows artists to pursue their craft without worrying about paying for housing expenses. This year ...

In an increasingly polarised world, the arts and humanities play a key role in sustaining democracy. They foster critical thinking, open dialogue, emotional intelligence and understanding across ...

In the early 2010s, antiquity dealers began approaching Israeli institutions with startling offerings: centuries-old manuscripts that had been found in the caves of northern Afghanistan.

The “rampant poverty” that Devil May Cry show creator Adi Shankar saw around him while growing up in Kolkata influenced the art style for Episode 6 of the Netflix animated series, he said in a recent ...

The Microsoft HoloLens Art History Experience is a mixed reality experience where users wear a headset to explore an immersive medieval environment. Using Immersive Realms, an app developed by Dr.

What happened on April 13, 1975, would change the course of Lebanon. An attack on a bus in Beirut plunged the country into 15 ...

Many things that most U. S. gallery-goers don’t know about Mexican art are told this week in a book, MacKinley Helm’s Modern Mexican Painters (Harper; $5). The Western Hemisphere has produced ...