Mariah Carey has released her annual video officially announcing the start of the Christmas season. This year, the singer dressed as Morticia Addams for the festive clip, which begins in eery ...

A stone wall panel relief from the North Palace of Nineveh showing the siege of Hamanu by invading Assyrian armies. [Photo provided by The Trustees of British Museum] "The necklace, of Egyptian ...

In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, the king built a magnificent palace known as the North Palace. He decorated it with wall after wall of sculptural reliefs recounting his ...

Some art museums overawe with the sweep of their collections. Others thrill with a few perfectly placed masterworks. The best of them embody their cities’ ambitions and fulfill an ideal: that ...