Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...

A new study argues that the pharaoh’s statues weren’t destroyed out of revenge, but were ‘ritually deactivated’ because of ...

Hopefully our visitors stop at the statue of Chief Gadao in Inalåhan, where he and his rival Chief Malaguana decided to journey in a canoe, only to paddle harder and harder while going nowhere.

The Cotswolds, Norfolk and Somerset are all lovely options for a weekend away – but they get plenty of airtime. For fresh ...

At some point, the Feejee Mermaid is thought to have been destroyed in a fire at Kimball’s museum. However, by then numerous ...

One does not have to be a fan of Shakespeare (or iambic pentameter) to know the tragic tale of JULIUS CAESAR – how this would-be-Emperor was felled by members of the Roman Senate, Caesar’s failure to ...

A carved panel found at Nimrud depicts Assyrian soldiers swimming across a river and using inflatable goat skins as floaties.

Discover a selection of 19th-21st century British paintings, drawings and sculpture including works by modern British and Scottish Masters, ...

Look around Thunder Bay and Luc Despres' metallic artistry seems to be everywhere. Soon his sculptures will also be turning heads under Lake Superior's waves. Despres has donated five mermaid ...

The ancient Greeks and Romans often doused their statues in perfume, a recent study found. Published in the Oxford Journal of Archaeology, the study adds to evidence that statues were more than ...

Art Review At the Gardner, Fabiola Jean-Louis summons ancient Vodou spirits In ‘Waters of the Abyss’ the artist spins Haitian history and spirituality into deeper myth ...

Alas, the statue on Anclote Key was not a mermaid at all; the hurricane brought the Old Man of the Sea. The statue looks like an ancient, petrified wood carving. It has more features than the heads on ...