Edmonia Lewis’s marble figures echo neoclassical ideals but recast narratives around subjects including emancipation and ...

Fashion is often about what is new. At the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, it’s also about what endures.“Andrew Gn: Fashioning the World” celebrates the Singapore-born, Paris-based designer whose three ...

One photo shows an intricately decorated shield held by a man from the Hervey Bay area for the procession of the Duke and ...

During the 7th and 8th centuries, Mesoamerica saw an endless game of thrones, with the empires in Tikal and Calakmul fighting ...

Inside the Nathaniel Felton Sr. House, across the street from the Peabody Historical Society, a white wooden door on the second floor opens to an attic that may hold a little-known piece of local ...

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge said on Feb. 8 it will return 116 artifacts from the former Benin Kingdom to Nigeria, according to a statement on its website.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University, UK, will shortly send around 100 Benin bronzes to Nigeria as part of a major restitution initiative, according to the Observer ...

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously suggested. Researchers at Newcastle University, and the Academy of Fine Arts, ...

The University of Cambridge today announces it has transferred legal ownership of 116 Benin artefacts in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA) collections to Nigeria’s National Commission ...

A forgotten grave near the Black Sea holds the world’s oldest processed gold, and a chilling clue to the rise and fall of Europe’s first ruling class. In an industrial corridor near Bulgaria’s Black ...

Peabody Energy Corporation (BTU) is the largest coal mining company in the United States. Much of its production comes from the Powder River Basin, but a majority of its earnings and cash flow have ...