There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

Here's how artists and designers have borrowed from the ancient civilization's rich visual vocabulary. A recreation of King Tutankhamun's death mask, on view at "Tutankhamun - His Tomb and his ...

Prehistoric cave paintings; Egyptian pyramids and temples; classical Greek statues. As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art. From the Stone Age came ...

An extinct and previously unknown species of goose has been identified from an ancient Egyptian painting that once adorned the walls of a mastaba, or tomb, according to a recently published analysis.

In Ancient Greece in 530 BCE, visitors to the grave of a young boy and girl would have gazed toward the sky and seen a brightly painted sphinx perched atop the 13-foot marble stele that marked the ...

What’s the deal with Leonardo’s harpsichord-viola? Why were Impressionists obsessed with the color purple? Art Bites brings you a surprising fact, lesser-known anecdote, or curious event from art ...

Amongst the most enduring mythical creatures, which were present in so many ancient cultures, are the dragons. Appearing frequently in folklore and tales from China in the east to Europe in the west, ...

A Neo-Assyrian gypsum relief depicting a royal lion hunt, from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud Palace Relief. Created between 875 BC and 860 BC. (The Trustees of the British Museum [CC BY-NC-SA 4.0]) ...

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, ...

In a remote stretch of canyon country along the US-Mexico border, painted walls are rewriting what we think we know about the ...

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 ...