Five essential museum exhibitions—from Raphael at the Met to Zurbarán in London—plus tarot and Ovid-themed highlights.

In a first, scientists have extracted DNA from a Renaissance-era drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, but they can't be ...

The oubliette wasn’t designed to torture the body—it was designed to erase the person. Prisoners were lowered into deep stone pits and then forgotten, sometimes for years. This video explains how and ...

For 25 years, Friends of Florence has worked to conserve and protect the city’s priceless art and architecture, raising ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- When the Cleveland Museum of Art opened its “Renaissance to Runway” exhibition with an AI-assisted video ...

Researchers have reconstructed ancient herpesvirus genomes from Iron Age and medieval Europeans, revealing that HHV-6 has ...

Some Y-chromosome DNA sequences from the “Holy Child” artwork and from a letter penned by one of Leonardo’s cousins appear to ...

New night trains are launching across Europe, but funding gaps and ageing infrastructure still threaten their revival.

A new theory argues the famous Voynich Manuscript, often referred to as “the most mysterious book in the world,” may have ...

Italy is blessed with a staggering variety of landscapes, from the jagged peaks of the Dolomites in the far north to ...

Stargazers are preparing for a total solar eclipse in 2026 and one of the best viewpoints is set to be from a cruise ship.

The 1,100-year-old burials of three elite warriors — two of whom were possibly father and son — have been discovered in ...