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Unesco officials and third parties express concern after Cambodian government grants Hong Kong-based company seventy-five hectares of land to develop just 500 meters south of the World Heritage site…

Celebrated for his stylish sculptures of decaying technological devices and crumbling cultural artifacts, Daniel Arsham makes art that looks…

A French metal detectorist thought he could cash in on his finds by duping the French government, but officials saw through his ploy.
More recent cave painting discoveries, like a 2014 revelation of cave art in Indonesia, believed to be at least 36,000 years old, have altered our understanding of early humans altogether.

 

The Column of Trajan, attributed to the architect Apollodorus of Damascus, was completed in 113 A.D. and stands at 126 feet tall. Here is the history of this iconic Roman monument.

The Nile’s flooding is out of control, and Sudan is struggling to save its people and its historic sites.
For archeologists working at Oxburgh Hall, a fifteenth-century manor in Norfolk, England, lockdown has given them the opportunity to delve a little deeper into their work.
In a new Art & Object series, we’ll take a look at some of history’s greatest jewelry stories, showing you how and why jewelry is such a powerful artistic, cultural, and historical artifact.