After ancient artifacts are discovered, where do they go? Aside from a minority of pieces sitting in personal collections or artifacts being studied in the lab, many items make their way from a buried ...

Designs range from Africa-inspired pieces to earrings that echo ones found in King Tut’s tomb. By Susanne Fowler LONDON — People go to museums to see works of art in one form or another. And from the ...

The MetroCard will soon become an antique after three decades of service, transforming before New Yorkers’ very eyes from an everyday straphanger totem into a relic of subway history. In honor of the ...

Mary Stopka knows her way around colored pens and a drawing pad, though she would not consider herself an artist. “But it doesn’t stop you from enjoying art, and people shouldn’t be afraid,” she said.

The thousand-year-old Indian statue sat in the Denver Art Museum’s Asian art collection for six decades, a gift from prominent New York art dealer Robert Ellsworth. Sculpted around the 10th century, ...

The British Museum is known for housing a vast collection of artifacts from across the globe. But what was the way some of these treasures were acquired? That’s where things get a little complicated.

It’s easier than ever to build your own robot, but humans have been building automatons since before anyone had even thought of electronics. One beautiful example is the Silver Swan, built in the 18th ...