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Lost Renaissance Masterpiece Found Hanging Above Woman’s Hot Plate Sells for $26.8 Million
Experts say the panel painting was created by Florentine artist Cimabue around 1280
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F.B.I. Recovers Nazi-Looted Painting From New York Museum
The Arkell Museum had no inkling of the early 20th-century canvas’ dark past
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Voracious Purple Sea Urchins Are Ravaging Kelp Forests on the West Coast
The trouble started in 2013, when sea stars, an urchin predator, began to die off
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Low-Level Offenders in NYC Can Now Take an Art Class Instead of Appearing in Court
“It’s about holding people accountable, but doing it in ways that promote human dignity,” Brooklyn’s district attorney said
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Canine Archaeologists Sniff Out 3,000-Year-Old Graves in Croatia
A new study shows how canines trained to find human remains could help archaeologists locate new sites
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Scientists Taught Rats to Drive Tiny Cars to Earn Froot Loops
What’s more, driving seemed to relax the rodents
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The Smithsonian and the Army Join Forces to Revive the Monuments Men
A new force of cultural specialists will advise the military on protecting cultural treasures from bombing and looting
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Artist Yayoi Kusama Is Creating a Whimsical Balloon for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
The artist’s studio collaborated with ‘balloon specialists’ to create the inflatable artwork
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Why Did Thousands of Rubber Bands Show Up on an Uninhabited Cornish Island?
Nesting gulls have likely been trying to feed the bands found in nearby flower fields to their chicks for decades
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Behold This ‘Cosmic Yeti,’ a Monster Galaxy From the Beginning of Time
Astronomers recently spotted 12.5 billion-year-old light from the giant galaxy, which helps explains the evolution of the early universe
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Listen to the Shattering Call of the World’s Loudest Known Bird
The song of the white bellbird can reach 125 decibels, which rivals ‘the amplitude of a pile driver,’ says the author of a new study
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Archaeologists Discover Medieval Woman and Child’s Skeletons at the Tower of London
The remains shine a light on the ordinary people who lived and worked in one of England’s most notorious historic sites
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See the World’s Oldest Pearl, Soon to Go on View for the First Time
The 8,000-year-old gemstone was found at the Neolithic Marawah archaeological site in 2017
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Get a Rare Peek Into the Life of Reclusive Writer J.D. Salinger
A new exhibition at the New York Public Library includes never-before-seen photographs, letters and manuscripts
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Space Farmers Could Grow Crops in Lunar and Martian Soil, Study Suggests
With a little added organic matter, dusty lunar and Martian soil simulants produced tomatoes, rye, radishes and other crops in the lab
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The “Mentor,” a vessel owned by the notorious Lord Elgin, sank in 1802 while carrying panels and sculptures looted from the Parthenon
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Trilobite Fossil Shows Animals Have Stood in Line for Hundreds of Millions of Years
A line of 480-million-year-old trilobites found in Morocco may be the earliest evidence of collective animal behavior
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Watch the New Trailer for Season Three of ‘The Crown’
The hit Netflix show returns November 17 with a new cast and will focus on events from the 1960s and ‘70s
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Leonardo’s ‘Vitruvian Man’ Is Headed to the Louvre Despite Italian Scholars’ Protests
Some researchers say the roughly 530-year-old drawing is too fragile, light-sensitive to travel
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Dublin Wants to Reclaim James Joyce’s Body Before the Centenary of ‘Ulysses’
Critics question whether the author, who died in Zurich after a 30-year exile, ever wanted to return home, even in death
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