Huge frescoes depicting the ancient god of wine Dionysus have been unearthed at Pompeii in what has been hailed as a major archaeological breakthrough. The frieze has been discovered in a spacious ...

Etna eruption. Europe’s most active volcano, Mount Etna, erupted in mid-February, releasing fiery rivers of lava and sending ...

KUA In a workshop tucked away in Beijing’s historic Forbidden City, a restorer hunched over a centuries-old figurine, using a ...

For a religion that preaches the transience of all things, the ever shifting sands of China's western deserts might seem the ...

Inspired by Murray Edwards' Women's Art Collection, Bethany Da Costa delves into the history of the female form as a model ...

It's finally the weekend, and there's plenty on to keep the whole family entertained. Here's your curated guide to what's on ...

Artist Citra Sasmita imagines a world populated entirely by women in her momentous painted scrolls, part of a new exhibition ...

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

"Hunan is one of the early locations of civilization of China. The Liyang Plain on the northwestern bank of the Dongting Lake ...

The timeless fairy tale of Bai She Zhuan, The Legend of the White Snake, has been retold in a variety of art forms.

A charred scroll from the Roman town of Herculaneum has been digitally "unwrapped", allowing researchers to peer inside the ancient document after 2,000 years. One word appears more than once in ...