The theft of the Louvre's crown jewels has increased calls for the museum to be more transparent about the colonial origins ...

Boston Ballet first performed the piece in 2009, its final season at the Wang Theatre, but the company’s only subsequent ...

Archaeologists in Scotland have made a major discovery at the battlefield of Culloden, the site where Bonnie Prince Charlie ...

Rome’s ancient masterpiece that has stood for nearly 2,000 years. From its perfect dome to mysterious altars, discover why ...

The diamond and emerald-studded crown of Empress Eugénie, which was found damaged near the Louvre after being dropped by ...

Hotel: I stay at the British School at Rome, which is basically like living in a Muriel Spark novel circa 1955. Restaurant: ...

Thieves made away with eight objects on display at the Paris museum, including a sapphire diadem, necklace and single earring from a set linked to 19th-century Queens Marie-Amélie and Hortense.

Ammolite comes from the fossilized shells of extinct squidlike critters called ammonites. Scientists knew the secret to the fossils’ flamboyant appearance lay somewhere in their layers of nacre, or ...

Weighing over 130 carats, the yellow Florentine is among the world’s most valuable diamonds—but for the last 100 years, its ...