If you wander into almost any old cemetery around Athens, you’ll find yourself surrounded by not only the past, but also by ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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