Known as the Plain of Jars, this UNESCO World Heritage site features thousands of massive, tubular-shaped stone vessels scattered across the Xieng Khouang plateau, some standing up to three meters ...

In his book “Tomb Sculpture: Its Changing Aspects From Ancient Egypt to Bernini,” the art historian Erwin Panofsky mused: “If we were, God forbid, sociologists, we might say that the entire Egyptian ...

New exhibition spotlights racing suits, pedal cars, pinball machines, and the everyday objects that carry Corvette history The artifacts in this exhibition carry the human side of the story of the ...

Artifacts tied to Honest Abe hit the auction block Thursday, with some bearing a striking resemblance to items from a vast collection that a private foundation once acquired for display at the ...

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Cranes lifted two giant American bison statues into place on either side of the south entrance of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History on Thursday night. Each statue, one depicting a bull bison, ...

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. (WFLA) — A one-of-a-kind museum in Pasco County is running out of space, marking a race against the clock to find a new home for thousands of irreplaceable artifacts. Tucked away ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — With trident in hand, Poseidon stands in immortal battle with the giant Polybotes. The god of the sea stands with skin the color of fired clay on a stamnos — an ancient Greek vase, this ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Smithsonian museum exhibit about the maritime journey that millions of Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic to slavery in the Americas will change later this month, ...

School children visit the National Museum of African American History and Culture's Middle Passage exhibit, behind a wooden timber, the artifact at right, from the slave ship, the São José-Paquete de ...