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The $32 million painting’s anonymous buyer pulled out of the sale due to unresolved controversy around the work’s Nazi-era provenance.

An Egyptologist identified previously undocumented inscriptions on the Luxor Obelisk, which towers over the Place de la Concorde.

The chapel, part of the Vatican Museums, will close indefinitely as Catholic cardinals gather to select Pope Francis's successor.

Bearing two royal Egyptian cartouches, the inscription is the first of its kind to be discovered in Jordan.

A skeleton unearthed in England offers the first physical evidence of human-animal combat in Roman Europe.

As head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis championed contemporary art and made history by visiting the Venice Biennale.

A lucky online shopper took home an authentic Magritte for just $1,580. Now, the untitled drawing could fetch $150,000 at auction next month.

The settlement dates back 3,500 years, challenging the notion that the area was not populated until the Hellenistic Period.