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Research into 9,000-year-old Wilamaya Patjxa burial site suggests women were big-game hunters, bucking long-held notions of gender roles
A new discovery of an ancient burial site shows just how much we still don’t know about ancient societies. A 9,000-year-old burial site in southern Peru potentially shows that what […]
Study suggests alcohol withdrawal led Van Gogh to cut off his ear
Perhaps one of the most infamous tales in art history is that Vincent van Gogh cut off his ear. Theories for the artist’s actions have been theorized, but a new […]
Piet Mondrian focus of restitution lawsuit and new conservation research
Dutch modernist Piet Mondrian, known for his striking colour block paintings, has made headlines twice recently. Once for a repatriation lawsuit involving a German museum and a second time for […]
Researchers suggest da Vinci’s “lost masterpiece” was never actually painted
You can’t lose something that never existed. That’s what some researchers have to say about a work by Leonardo da Vinci known as the “lost masterpiece.” While a full-scale cartoon […]
The Nebra Sky Disk, a.k.a. the oldest picture of the stars, may be 1,000 years younger according to new research
Two decades ago, looters discovered a trove of artefacts thought to be from the Bronze Age. Among those items was a disk now known as the Nebra Sky Disc and […]
Once thought a fake, experts now link painting to Rembrandt
A small, postcard-sized panel painting held at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum for decades has been determined to be from the Rembrandt workshop. The painting was long thought to be at worst, […]
MIT develops AI that identifies similarities between unrelated artworks, spanning centuries, artists, and mediums
Art imitating art? That isn’t quite the case here, but a new algorithm developed by the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) in conjunction with Microsoft searchers for […]
