The raid on the Louvre is far from the first museum heist. But several factors have combined to make Europe fertile ground ...

The oldest known cave painting on Earth is not a charging bison in Europe but a reddish pig on a limestone wall in Indonesia, ...

French scholars argued that the 17th-century Pascaline should go to a public collection and stay within the country. But a ...

Scientists have just unearthed theworld’s oldest known cave art on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. At 51,200 years old, ...

Two hundred and eighty-four years is plenty of time for something to go out of style or be swept under the rug of history.

Athens’ Odeon of Herodes Atticus has closed for a three-year renovation, but the show must go on, so here are nine equally notable theatres to check out in the meantime. Athens' Odeon of Herodes ...

From creation myths to political omens, different cultures have had vastly different interpretations of the dramatic natural ...

ON A RECENT morning in Seville, Spain, a city crowded with churches and ceramic tiles depicting the Passion of Christ and the suffering of saints, some visitors slipped into a 14th-century convent and ...

Montecatini Terme is a spa town, but not in the way Americans think of a spa — for centuries, people seeking a cure for ...

Was the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe that appeared on the cloak of Juan Diego in 1531 the work of the Michelangelo of ...

Hazleton Area Academy of Sciences student Maximillyano Almanzar, 14, will be making his boxing debut this weekend after ...