An exhibition at the V&A Dundee traces the many things the garden has been: a paradise; a replica of the world; a sanctuary. What would the ideal garden look like today?

A Swedish street art duo known as “Anonymouse” has revealed their identities after nine years of creating miniature ...

A newly published scientific analysis has identified a previously unknown formula for ancient eye makeup used in northwestern ...

Who invented alphabets and vowels. Alphabets were invented by the Phoenicians (from present-day Lebanon and Israel) roughly around 1200 BC. But they invented only consonants. A script with consonants ...

Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France. Dated to: 30,000 to 28,000 B.C. | Once thought to house the oldest representational art, the more than 1,000 paintings of predators like lions and mammoths are ...

Swan upmanship — learning to live with these regal birds is an ancient art on whatsapp (opens in a new window) Save Jonathan Guthrie. Published June 5 2025. Jump to comments section Print this page.

EVERETT — In a room on the Washington State Everett campus, students practice defusing cybersecurity threats using a miniature model city with skyscrapers, a power plant, office buildings, a ...

More widely, Islamic tradition has discouraged the figurative depiction of living creatures, especially human beings. Islamic art has therefore tended to be abstract or decorative. Shia Islamic ...

Art; the week recommends Ancient India: living traditions – 'ethereal and sensual' exhibition. Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism are explored in show that remains 'remarkably compact' ...