MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...

A strange collection of objects found along a major pilgrimage route may have been used in "magical rituals" by sorcerers around 400 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced.

"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...

Nicki Green, "The Porous Sea (Tub)" (2019), glazed earthenware with cotton quilt (all images courtesy the artist unless noted otherwise) Just before I started writing this article, my partner and I ...

An astute owl with a round belly and pointy claws that served as a wine vessel crafted in ancient China, circa the 12th or 13th century B.C., is one of the oldest objects in "Eternal Offerings: ...

The collection of art and ritual objects will move to the Brooklyn Museum for six years starting in June after the Rubin closes its building to focus on traveling exhibitions and long-term loans. By ...

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng -- Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein -- Uncovering disguised social ...

Across North America, archaeologists are pulling remarkable stories out of the ground, from Ice Age footprints to buried cities that once pulsed with trade and ritual. As I follow these digs, I see a ...

A bag of coffee beans would seem out of place at most art exhibits. But at "Ritual Objects: The Radical and The Practical in Art & Design," a bright red bag emblazoned with the black words "Eight ...