“Ancient art is fundamentally undervalued relative to other areas in the art market,” says Salomon Aaron at London’s David Aaron. Certainly when compared to modern art, where a prized work ...

The thermometer read 100ºF, and that wasn’t anything special for August. It’s the kind of heat that really makes you appreciate air conditioning. As I explored the rock formations of northern Arizona, ...

Millions of people have explored ancient Greece's golden ratio, a magical number that has fascinated experts and amateurs for ...

In that sense, ancient art is a marker for this cognitive shift: Find early paintings, particularly figurative representations like animals, and you’ve found evidence for the modern human mind.

Enjoy the rich history of tattoos, from ancient cultural traditions to modern self-expression. In this podcast episode, we ...

The Smithsonian’s museums display objects from our collections that span the breadth of art and design from the ancient to the modern-day, from the whimsical to the practical. Along with our ...

Thousands of years ago, Greco-Roman statues offered viewers a multi-dimensional experience that also called to our olfactory senses.

But, in reality, ancient works of art were colorful and even scented ... on ideas of what the originals might have looked like; modern technologies were used to detect traces of color.