Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Recent research has shown that engravings in a cave in La Roche-Cotard (France), which has been sealed for thousands of years, were actually made by Neanderthals. This research was performed by Basel archaeologist Dorota Wojtczak together with a team of researchers from France and Denmark, whose findings reveal that the […]

AncientPages.com – The urge to draw images in sand, or create sand sculptures, seems to be irresistible, as a walk on many a modern beach or dune surface will show. Sand is a vast canvas—and may have been used as one for far longer than people realize. When people think of ancient paleoart, cave paintings (pictographs), rock […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – When Mount Vesuvius erupted on the morning of August 24, 79 A.D., life ended in the ancient city of Pompeii. A great cloud of H๏τ ash, stones, and poisonous gases completely buried the whole Roman city, and the natural catastrophe was devastating. At the time of the destruction, Pompeii was […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales have used an advanced imaging technique at the Australian Synchrotron to gain more information about an underpainting in a famous Renaissance portrait of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1537 to 1569. The painting Cosimo I […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists Dr. Lorenzo de Lellis and Dr. Maciej Wyżgoł unexpectedly stumbled upon an enigmatic complex of rooms made of sun-dried brick, the interiors of which were covered with figural scenes unique for Christian art. The discovery was made during the exploration of houses dating from the Funj period (16th-19th centuries […]

AncientPages.com –  One of the most H๏τly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like their relations at either end of the hominoid evolutionary tree, chimpanzees and Homo sapiens, Neanderthals’ behavior varied culturally from […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Countless unearthed ancient statues prove that Greek civilization valued beauty and perfection. The astonishing achievements of ancient Greek artists are reflected in sculptures our modern world admires with awe. The Daughter of Thera is currently on display for the first time. Credit: Greek Culture Ministry The Boxer at Rest is […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – A 51,000-year-old bone carving engraved with symbols offers evidence the Neanderthals were not as primitive as previously thought and it is time to change our understanding of our closest relatives. The artifact discovered in a German cave could be proof the Neanderthals had their own artistic tradition before modern humans […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Art is universal and timeless, and so is our appreciation of it if it is unique and beautiful, like this magnificent bronze sculpture. Known to the modern world as the Boxer at Rest, also known as the Terme Boxer, Seated Boxer, Defeated Boxer, or Boxer of the Quirinal, this masterpiece […]