Archaeologists discovered rare paintings, showing Helen of Troy and other Greek figures, in the lost Roman city of Pompeii 2000 years after the deadly volcanic eruption. The paintings were revealed on ...

Painted around 1900, Friedrich Heyser's "Ophelia" may have been an inspiration for a popular song on the singer's latest ...

Here’s something to shut you off in mid-scroll: deliberate cave paintings in France have just been dated back at least 57,000 ...

If you are interested in the history of humanity, it undoubtedly leads you back to the period when Neanderthals lived. Unfortunately, little is known about how these early humans lived in this era.

On a late August afternoon at BC’s McMullen Museum of Art, professors of art history Stephanie Leone and John Lansdowne ’07 were studying a thirteenth-century painting of the Madonna and child, ...