Along with museums, there are plenty of contemporary art galleries in Cairo, many of which are in Zamalek on Gezira island in ...

From its origins in Arabia, the Muslim faith spread rapidly and developed a distinctive culture, including a form of art that has thrived through the centuries to be instantly recognizable ...

A new study traces the winged leonine artwork back to the Yangtze River basin, hypothesizing that it was likely a colossal, ...

As part of Typography Week at Creative Bloq, we've been looking at examples of the impact of typography in branding, ...

Celebrating its 40th birthday this year with new exhibits and a new director, the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University is a venue worth discovering or rediscovering. Admission is free, the ...

It's a long way from a small village to a big city. In the indie construction game "Manor Lords," players get a finely ...

Unlike some other medieval torture devices ... was used with some frequency to ensure that the condemned died a torturous death. In France, for example, executioners tied a victim to the breaking ...

What are the best medieval games? Rare is a videogame that doesn’t feature at least one sword, suit of armor, or roast chicken. Still, they’re usually mixed in with bearded hermits slinging ...

Wandering the streets of Zürich allows you to marvel at an extraordinary range of public art. It starts in the Middle Ages, with carved drinking fountains; continues with 19th- and 20th-century ...

No matter how powerful generative AI becomes, writer Ted Chiang says it will never create true art. Chiang is one of the most admired science-fiction authors writing today, best known for the ...

In July 2022, for example, a Reddit user made a post to the r/AskHistorians subreddit describing the meme and asking: "Is it true that medieval peasants worked only 150 days in a year due to the ...

After years of painstaking work, Rabbi Shem Tov Ibn Gaon finished the illustrated manuscript in 1312 Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to ...