Sculptor François Décure met his demise trying to make his artwork in the Paris Catacombs accessible to the public above.

Cemeteries in Greece and beyond reveal how societies use art, monuments, and rituals to honor the dead and reflect on life.

Archaeologists have identified a 4,000-year-old human handprint pressed into the surface of an Egyptian tomb offering, a small impression that opens an unexpectedly intimate window into life and labor ...

Built during Egypt’s Fourth Dynasty, the pyramids on the Giza Plateau has been drawing visitors for thousands of years. The earliest records of tourists dates back to the 5 th century BCE, when Greek ...