An unusual depiction of the ancient Egyptian sky goddess Nut may include a representation of the "Dark River" or "Great Rift"—the band along the Milky Way caused by dust clouds. This is the conclusion ...

Several mummified cat remains and deities like the Egyptian goddess Bastet suggest that the furry felines and humans lived alongside each other in the region. However, the exact circumstances ...

The goddess Bastet, depicted as a lioness or a woman with a lion’s ... In Assyrian culture, the lion was a symbol of royalty, power, and valor, often seen in art and architecture. The Babylonian ...

Manhattan’s Metropolitan Museum of Art had a magnificent new treasure from ancient Rome to show its visitors this week: a smooth-limbed, white marble statue of Aphrodite, shown startled at her ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Alfred Bast is an artist who was born in 1948.

Until last week, the best-kept secret in the art auction world was ... a face-saving fiction for Rembrandt’s battered and fading goddess, whom no one wanted enough to put up the 100,000 guineas ...