The US family who owned it believed it was a 20th-century reproduction

Less-experienced artists carved body parts, while master sculptors worked on faces among archaeologist's discoveries at the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut

Little has been know about the city of Karakorum where Genghis Khan once established a camp—until now

The tomb from the time of King Ramesses II is the latest big discovery at Saqqara, south of Cairo

Skeletons of 12 men believed to have fought in the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805 have been discovered in Brno

Sculpture atop the final resting place of the medieval knight and heir to Edward III has been examined by a team of researchers led by The Courtauld Institute of Art

Show opening in Dallas and travelling to Amsterdam reveals findings from three-year international research project into Vincent's olive grove pictures

Previously thought to be Korean, the brush washer has been newly identified as being nearly 1,000 years old and manufactured at the imperial Ru kiln

New research indicates Hubert started the work but had to stop, so Jan took over

Exhibition on Madrid museum’s copy of the Mona Lisa sheds new light on the original

The story of enigmatic artist Jacobus Vrel will be told in an exhibition scheduled for 2023 and in a book published this month

The artist titled the drawing "Worn out" in English because he wanted to work for a London publisher

Major restoration on Girl reading a Letter at an Open Window shows a large studded goblet later covered by a green curtain

On the anniversary of Vincent’s death, his picture can be seen as “a suicide note in colour”

Vincent's watercolour of a Dutch meadow with cows was exhibited once, in 1903, and is known only from a small black-and-white photograph

Ten teams from international universities and museums will visit the Dhi Qar region in October for further excavations

Scholars believe the 15th-century decorative work was whitewashed in the Tudor era to obliterate the Roman Catholic imagery

Discovery contradicts commonly held belief that these archaic humans were incapable of creating aesthetic items

Reproduced here for the first time: a trio of sketches from Vincent’s village—designed as a bookmark

Vincent was fascinated by his Australian colleague’s links with Japan—and together they painted landscapes in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise

Sculpture is now on show at the Semperbau in Dresden

In Provence, Vincent loved the gnarled trees with a passion that rivalled his beloved sunflowers

Carabinieri's recovery of the San Galgano collection of “unprecedented importance”

Paintings and drawings have been reattributed to some of the continent's most famous 20th-century names

The material, which reflects 98% of light, will have significant use in cooling buildings and fighting climate change

New scientific report confirms that wax bust of the goddess Flora—bought by the eminent museum director Wilhelm Bode—dates to after the Renaissance

A feature-length film, screening next week in France, sheds new light on the political machinations surrounding the world's most controversial painting

Experts believe that the ceremonial carriage may have been used for wedding processions

Infrared scans indicate that the phrase, "Can only have been painted by a madman", matches the artist’s handwriting

Celtic deity from Cambridgeshire sports impeccable hair that is slightly longer at the back