(AP) WEST HARTFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut seventh-grader says workers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City didn't believe him when he pointed out an inaccuracy with a map that was on ...

(The Conversation) — Fierce debates about visual depictions of the sacred have existed for centuries. An art historian explains the controversies in the Byzantine Empire over images of Christ. (The ...

Think of Byzantium, and a color leaps to mind. That color is gold. The empire ruled from the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea for a thousand years between AD 324 and its final ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is unveiling an ambitious transformation in the George D. and Margo Behrakis Wing for Art of the Ancient World: five reimagined ...

Every so often, a visitor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City questions the accuracy of an exhibit, but Helen Evans, one of the museum's curators, says not all of them are right.

It seemed a small detail at first: the stains of soot around the wick hole of a clay oil lamp from Tunisia, dated to the sixth century CE. At the time, Tunisia — along with parts of present-day ...

Slobodan (Danny) Ćurčić, professor of art and archaeology, emeritus, at Princeton University, and a global authority on Byzantine art and architecture, died Dec. 3 in Thessaloniki, Greece. He was 76.

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Picasso, Monet and Byzantium are coming to the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2024. New descriptions of upcoming exhibitions appeared quietly on the museum’s website over the past week, ...

A metal detectorist has discovered a rare Byzantine coin in the mountains of Norway’s Vestre Slidre municipality, more than a millennium after it was created and over 1,600 miles away from its place ...