A new collection of extremely rare colour portraits of ancient Egyptian mummies have been discovered painted on the newly discovered 2,000-year-old caskets of their owners. The paintings are said to…
The original Mercedes-Benz 300 SL that was painted by Andy Warhol is going under the hammer in New York today and is expected to fetch millions. The car has been…
Art experts in the Netherlands have claimed that a piece long thought to be an imitation was actually painted by Rembrandt himself. "The Raising of the Cross" oil sketch had…
A search is underway for a suspect who whitewashed history by painting a 5.000 year-old-menhir completely white. Menhir's started appearing in the middle Bronze Age and are most commonly found…
A 1930s artwork that pokes fun at Hitler and was believed to have been found years ago in a train station may have been painted by Picasso. ‘The Eye of…
The inhabitants of the "world's oldest city" - now a UNESCO World Heritage Site - painted the skeletal remains of their dead and buried them in the walls of people's…
Experts say they have discovered the oldest known temple dedicated to the Greek goddess of wisdom and war Athena, which contained painted ceramics, helmets, weapons and armour. The ancient temple,…
The design for new doors at a Spanish Cathedral and Unesco Heritage Site - which include the image of God painted as a human man - has caused outrage among…
The work of Kurdish prison artist Zehra Dogan when she was in a Turkish prison that was made using hair, sheets, menstrual blood or indeed anything else she could find…
Israeli archaeologists have found evidence that early humans wore shell necklaces painted with ochre as far back as 120,000 years ago. The discovery, which included several examples of ancient shell…