The extraordinary ancient artwork kept secret until 1987
What he means is he never tires of showing visitors the ancient artwork in this open-air gallery, known as the Great Rainbow Serpent Site. At about six metres in length, it is the largest known ...
Sands of Time: Unraveling 8,000 Years of Human History in Libya
On Libya’s Messak Settafet plateau, Cretaceous sandstone tells a dual story: modern oil field operations and remnants of ...
Egypt inspired Black artists. Was it appropriation or homage?
The Metropolitan Museum of Art surveys 150 years of Black artists turning to ancient Egypt.
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Step Inside the World’s Oldest Egyptian Museum, Newly Revamped for its Bicentennial
Turin's Museo Egizio is celebrating its bicentennial with a gallery redesign, new exhibits, and commissions from contemporary ...
Fallen ancient civilizations show us why we must not ignore climate warnings
In 1177BC, Amurapi, the last king of Ugarit in modern-day Syria, wrote in cuneiform on baked clay to the Hittite emperor ...
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Prehistoric hunter-gatherers heard the elks painted on rocks 'talking'
Researchers performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting site and found that the same vertical rock surfaces that have the painted elks, humans and boats, are also ...
Acoustic properties of rock sites may have inspired prehistoric art
Researchers at the University of Helsinki performed acoustic impulse response measurements in front of 37 rock painting sites ...