Giuseppe Penone, veteran of the Arte Povera movement, with his curator Adam Weinberg, former director of the Whitney, are ...

Swords first appeared during the Bronze Age. But scholars aren’t sure whether they were a prestige item — made for show — or designed primarily to kill. Swords developed on human beings over hundreds ...

A large-scale archaeological investigation ahead of a wind farm project in Lower Saxony, Germany, has revealed an unexpectedly rich and multi-layered landscape of human activity, ranging from early ...

As hierarchies of merit go, it's got long historical legs, stretching all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Not — as many believe — to the ancient Olympic Games, however; those athletes just got ...

Bronze has been around almost as long as horology. First used in weaponry and decorations around 4,000 BC — roughly when the first water clocks appeared — it’s mankind’s oldest alloy. Concocted of ...

As with every Color of the Year, Sherwin-Williams director of color marketing Sue Wadden and her team made their selection in February, “on the precipice of the world falling apart,” as Wadden puts it ...