The Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon recently underwent some curatorial staff changes, with Charles Lachman stepping down as curator of Asian art to devote his energies ...

The Pulitzer Arts Foundation touts itself as part art museum, part laboratory, with a commitment to innovation as firm as its commitment to showcasing the world’s finest art. With its new exhibition ...

Is there such a thing as reverent glee? If so, then that's how I would have described St. Joseph Sr. Christine Schenk as she bounded among the ruins of ancient Cenchreae, the location of the house ...

For generations, those who mourn the passing of others have tried in some public displays to honor the memory of the departed. The practice goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and Romans, who ...

POTTSVILLE — James Silliman, a captain in Pennsylvania’s 28th Regiment, was only 32 years old when he died on July 31, 1865. As providence would have it, he lived to see the Civil War end on April 8, ...

Like Barbra Streisand, Elton John and Cher, Tutankhamun, boy king of ancient Egypt, periodically goes on a world tour for what may or may not be a last live performance for the fans. Or, in Tut’s case ...

Researchers from the University of Hradec Králové have uncovered a massive 6,000-year-old burial mound in the Czech Republic, which may be one of Europe’s oldest and longest funerary monuments. This ...

Encompassing artistic creations, funerary art is associated with burial practices and commemorative rituals designed to honour the deceased and reflect cultural beliefs about death and the afterlife, ...

The seized items include a funerary statue valued at $6 million that likely came from an archaeological site near the ancient ...

At the opening of a new art exhibit on the faces of ancient Palmyra at the Museo archeologico nazionale di Cividale del Friuli in the northern Italian city of Friuli, prominent Near Eastern ...