Harvard Art Museums opened their doors Friday for a hands-on display of ancient Egyptian artifacts, the first in a series of “First/Hand Fridays” that allows Harvard students to touch items in the ...

Introductory -- Curating the ancient Middle East / Geoff Emberling and Lucas Petit -- Museum displays and the creation of the ancient Middle East : a view from the Ashmolean and the British museum / ...

“It was very important to me that this object meets both the high standards of quality that the CMA holds dear and that it has a very long and well-documented modern history,’’ Pevnick said. The ...

Following more than a decade of research and conservation, Sarasota, Florida’s Ringling Museum of Art will now display more than 200 works from its collection of ancient art for the first time. If you ...

This story was originally published by ArtsATL. Atlanta art lovers may be surprised that the High Museum of Art is hosting the artwork of ancient Nubia because it has seldom presented exhibitions that ...

Over 16 years, multiple people gave or sold the Met museum pottery shards that surprisingly came from the same ancient drinking cup. The cup was rebuilt, a seeming marvel of scholarship and luck, as ...

The exhibit ‘Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Maya Art’ showcases rarely-seen works through Sept. 3. Moving an ancient stone artifact that towers over 10 feet tall and weighs about 9,000 pounds is no ...

Editor’s note: “Fair Ladies — Digital Representations of Ancient Chinese Women,” a Zhejiang Museum exhibition of more than 1,000 paintings from 32 museums across China, was held first online in 2021 ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) – The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts has returned 44 stolen or looted works of ancient art back to their countries of origin. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and a unit of ...

They are among the most popular exhibits in museums worldwide, with a name so resonant, blockbuster films have been built on it. But some museums in Britain are now using words other than “mummy” to ...

Egypt suffered a devastating loss in September when a pharaoh's priceless bracelet was stolen from a museum in Cairo – and melted down. Now forever lost, the bracelet belonged to Pharaoh Usermaatre ...

Turkey first made claims about the sculpture in 2012 when it released a list of nearly two dozen objects in the Cleveland museum’s collection that it alleged were looted from Bubon and other locations ...