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History is full of sweeping love affairs, from Antony and Cleopatra to Catherine the Great and Grigory Potemkin and many more ...

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A cache of 337 coins bearing Cleopatra VII’s image sheds new light on the age of the Temple of Taposiris Magna—and the ...

The 17th-century artist’s likeness of the young Hapsburg, currently on view at the Norton Simon Museum in California, ...

The photographer discusses Alice Neel, Walker Evans and the way he brings Black gestures and history to the foreground of his ...

Researchers discovered that our ability to recognize trees in art is linked to a mathematical principle called the branch ...

But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually smell pretty good. “In films and books, terrible things happen to those ...

Born Camilla Rosemary Shand, Queen Camilla was previously married to Andrew Parker Bowles, with whom she shares children Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes. Camilla Parker Bowles married King ...

Where are the women in the UK’s public art installations? Let’s take a look at the politics of sculptural commissions plus a top ten of statues featuring women in the city of London. A set of ...

A small, wooden diorama found in an ancient Egyptian tomb reflects the importance of grain in an agricultural society.