A white fluid on a 3,300-year-old papyrus was used to make the figure of a jackal slimmer, researchers have found

Ben Luke talks to The Art Newspaper's Melissa Gronlund about the outbreak of war in a region that has invested heavily in arts and culture, while Ben Sutton discusses the 82nd Whitney Biennial in New York. Plus, a newly-discovered Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum.

The Dutch museum has undertaken a two-year study of the 17th-century work "Vision of Zacharias in the Temple"

The inscriptions show that people from different parts of India interacted with Greeks and Egyptians in Egypt in the 1st-3rd centuries AD

The painting by Henry Raeburn, which resurfaced last year, is being displayed at the National Gallery of Scotland

Scribblings analysed using state-of the art technology have brought new insight into the daily life and emotions of people who lived in the ancient city

A hand stencil found in a cave in Sulawesi has been assessed as being at least 67,800 years old

Discoveries by metal detectorists account for 94% of recorded finds in 2024

Found beneath the town of Port Talbot, the structure is the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales

The hoard, uncovered by archaeologists in Norfolk, includes rare animal-headed battle trumpet

A researcher's encoding method may shed some light on the 15th-century codex

Archaeologists discovered Palaeolithic fire-making tools in a field in the east of England

The newly attributed, five-inch-tall sketch of a foot has an estimate of $1.5m to $2m

The expensive Indo-Portuguese casket depicted in two works was likely a loan from a wealthy patron, a new book reveals

Members of the artist duo’s family were part of a group that spotted a collection of 27 works for sale online, and intervened with the help of the Art Loss Register

A pillar featuring detailed facial features was unearthed in Karahan Tepe near the Syrian border

An expert argues that a legal document by the artist’s widow, from which the painting’s title is taken, is not referencing the famous picture in Vienna

A study of human hair woven into a 500-year-old khipu concluded that its creator had eaten a diet associated with low-ranking individuals

The newly found Nazca Lines include depictions of human sacrifice and a priest carrying a human head

Researchers have found evidence of former residents and newcomers making a life among the ruins of the ancient Roman city in the years following 79AD

The city, which dates from between the third and seventh centuries, includes residences, tombs and two churches

Researchers at the Fitzwilliam Museum, UK, found the marking on an artefact due to go on display in an exhibition this autumn

Aeneas, named after a hero from Greek and Roman mythology, can calculate when inscriptions were carved and predict lost text

A section of the ancient complex, the age of which has long been debated, has been found to date back to between 4600 and 4300 BC

A ten-year conservation project has shed light on how the artist attempted to work with a system involving a grid of nails placed on the walls

Jun Yi Wong from the University of Toronto analysed broken statues of the pharaoh Hatshepsut and found that—contrary to some previous scholarship—they appear to have been damaged for “pragmatic and ritualistic reasons”

The work, which unexpectedly appeared at auction in 2024, has been restored and added to an exhibition at the Kunstmuseum Basel

Painted scenes and a number of objects were found inside the structures, which were built for Ancient Egyptian officials

The finding provides a psychedelic trip into the heart of pre-Incan power at Chavín de Huántar, where psychoactive substances were used in elite ceremonial rituals

Pollution particles found in Young Woman seated at a Virginal, owned by the Rembrandt collector Thomas Kaplan, are helping to date the work, which only publicly surfaced at auction in 2004