WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations ...

ROME, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Italy has bought Antonello da Messina's "Ecce Homo" for $14.9 million, securing the rare work by the 15th‑century Renaissance master just as it was due to be auctioned in New ...

The ministry described the small, tempera painting as a unique work in Renaissance art and a major addition to its strategy to expand and promote Italy's cultural heritage. The double-sided panel ...

Scientists have identified the world’s oldest rock art—a 67,800-year-old hand stencil in Sulawesi—using uranium-series dating ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

There’s a whole lot of talk about freedom of speech lately. Whether it’s your right to peacefully protest, your right to say what you think of an elected official and whether or not you should be able ...

Opera, The Great Wave, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. A compact, but comprehensive, art exhibition over two floors of the Festival Theatre foyer ...

Neanderthal DNA is 99.7% identical to our own, and researchers claim that some humans might be carrying as much as 2% of the Neanderthal genome. Making things even weirder is that scientists recently ...

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals were probably interbreeding over a huge area stretching from western Europe into Asia. It was thought that this probably happened in the eastern Mediterranean region, but ...

Management reiterated increased confidence in achieving 2026 full year sales growth of 8% to 10% and EPS of $2.90 to $3.05. Ullem projected Q1 2026 sales of $1.55 billion to $1.63 billion and adjusted ...

Fossils from a Moroccan cave have been dated with remarkable accuracy to about 773,000 years ago, thanks to a magnetic signature locked into the surrounding sediments. The hominin remains show a blend ...