MICHAEL Strauss issues a challenge: Try picking up his pride and joy, a gold-and-silver Rothschild menorah. The visitor tries with one hand and fails but remains fascinated by the beautiful piece made ...

A strange collection of objects found along a major pilgrimage route may have been used in "magical rituals" by sorcerers around 400 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has announced.

The collection of art and ritual objects will move to the Brooklyn Museum for six years starting in June after the Rubin closes its building to focus on traveling exhibitions and long-term loans. By ...

"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...

List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface: To Lothar / Li Shuicheng -- Introduction: Ritual and Economy in East Asian Archaeology / Rowan Flad and Anke Hein -- Uncovering disguised social ...

A bag of coffee beans would seem out of place at most art exhibits. But at "Ritual Objects: The Radical and The Practical in Art & Design," a bright red bag emblazoned with the black words "Eight ...