How a Viennese postmodernist with an MBA turned fashion into fine art—and saved America's greatest museum in the processIt ...

In the rolling grasslands of eastern Kazakhstan, a team of archaeologists opened a burial mound at a site called Eleke Sazy ...

Finding a meaningful Mother’s Day gift is rarely easy. This year, skip the standard flowers and scour eBay or take a trip to ...

Koh-i-Noor restitution is a complex issue, and while the call for the diamond's return to its origins is morally clear, the ...

Now, French archaeologist François Desset and his colleagues say they have cracked much of it. If confirmed, their work would ...

Mini Museum's The Walking Dead collaboration is turning 32 Walking Dead props into tens of thousands of tiny fragments. We ...

Yves Mudimbe famously argued, Africa has often been constructed as an object of knowledge rather than a subject producing it ...

Iconoclasm is not simply the destruction of images, but a deliberate rupture of memory that severs the continuity through ...

A UN-backed report alleges systematic sexual violence against Palestinians in Israeli detention, including rape involving ...

There’s no time like the present to talk about the past. When people have questions about local history, we try to find answers. Let’s see if we can help these Beacon Journal readers. We begin with a ...

History is filled with mysteries that continue to puzzle experts no matter how much time passes. From missing people and ...

Scholars from across the country gathered over the weekend at the college for the New England Medieval Consortium’s annual conference. The weekend included a keynote address by Lloyd de Beer who is a ...