as well as the ancient statue of Xochipilli, the Aztec god of art, games, beauty, dance and maize (among others). The museum offers a look at how tradition, culture and life were formed in all ...

Christopher Hallett, Professor Emeritus, Departments of History of Art and Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, University of ...

In ancient Egypt, paint was sourced from minerals, such as ocre, that were then ground into a powder, according to research ...

Each ball, or “temari,” is a work of art, with colorful geometric patterns carrying poetic names like “firefly flowers” and ...

Brockman did in a revelatory Texas Freedom Network report, that you find this lesson provides only passing mentions of ancient Mayan, Aztec and Greek art, followed by four pages devoted to the ...

The Aztec Calendar Stone holds information about ... Photography techniques and virtual reality also bring ancient art to life in new ways. Humans domesticated dogs before any other animal.

The Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, envisioned by Diego Rivera to preserve Mexico’s pre-Hispanic heritage, is celebrating ...

Vitrification technology is used at Bridge Clinic for the cryopreservation of eggs, sperm, and embryos, maintaining high ...

This fall the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s facade will feature strange ... like sci-fi characters melded with ancient Mediterranean statuary. Limbs and heads are missing, but their curves ...

By Robin Pogrebin Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter ...

­When making clothes before the 19th century, one important tool was the spinning wheel. The spinning wheel helped improve the task of turning fabric into thread that, again, would be used to ...