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Archaeologists with Cyprus's Department of Antiquities recently came across a rare, sweeping mosaic floor that depicts the ancient sport of chariot racing held in a Roman hippodrome.
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It is the botched restoration that just keeps giving. Beast Jesus — the "Ecce Homo" fresco that now resembles a primate thanks to octonagerian restorer Cecilia Giménez — will make its stage debut this month.
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A 91-year-old woman who has been under investigation after she filled out the blank spaces on a museum's ~$88,468 crossword puzzle artwork in ballpoint pen is now claiming copyright of the work.
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Airport officials in England detained a Muslim healthcare worker and interrogated her under the British Parliament's Terrorism Acts — for simply reading a book on Syrian art and culture.
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Pantone has just released a new app, and using it feels a bit like an Easter Egg hunt for artists and designers.
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Come fall, Apple will pry the gun emoji from your cold, texting hands.
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Magnus, the much-praised mobile app that branded itself as the "Shazam for art," is now off the market, following news that it operated using information grabbed from other art world databases as well as copyright claims by three German galleries.
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The Egyptian Museum in Cairo has unveiled the country's oldest written papyri that archaeologists have found so far, placing the delicate fragments on display last month.
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St. Petersburg residents will vote on how to dress a replica statue of Michelangelo's "David" that came to the city in May, following a complaint from a woman who said his nudity "spoils the city's historic appearance and warps children's souls."
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Construction crews working on the sewage system beneath the southern coastal city of Larnaca in Cyprus recently found themselves face-to-face with Roman-era scenes of toil: a large-scale mosaic floor of the Labors of Hercules dating to the 2nd century CE.
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Some scribbles dismissed in the 1920s by the then-director of the Victoria & Albert Museum as "irrelevant notes and diagrams in red chalk" were recently revealed to represent Leonardo da Vinci's first record of the laws of friction.
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The centerpiece of a Renaissance villa in Rome, once used as a papal country retreat, has been restored to its former glory, with financial backing from an unexpected source: a group of anonymous Japanese donors.