Michelangelo may have depicted a woman suffering from breast cancer in a famous fresco of a biblical flood on the ceiling of ...

The prehistoric paint box and its pigment was found in a palaeolithic riverside campsite. As well as the paintbox itself, archaeologists also found numerous stone tools and arrowheads - and a ring of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an intricately decorated blue room, interpreted as an ancient Roman shrine known as a sacrarium, during recent excavations in central Pompeii in Italy. The Italian ...