Excavations carried out during 2025 in the Hohle Fels cave, located in the UNESCO World Heritage area of the Swabian Jura in southwest Germany, have yielded two new discoveries of extraordinary importance for understanding Paleolithic art. These are two representations of birds carved in mammoth ivory that are 40,000 years old and, due to their […]

It stands 6.4 feet tall, nearly twenty-three hundred years old, and has one detail that makes it special among the surviving bronze sculptures of ancient Greece, alongside the Charioteer of Delphi and the Riace bronzes: like them, the Antikythera Ephebe still has its original eyes, made of glass paste, and those eyes are the reason […]

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

À quelques kilomètres de Saint-Malo, les rochers de Rothéneuf abritent plus de 300 visages, monstres et corsaires figés dans le granit. Œuvre monumentale de l’abbé Fouéré, ce site sculpté à même la falaise intrigue autant qu’il fascine, entre légende locale et énigme artistique. Un lieu unique...