The red stitching has long since faded, and the hand-woven linen has softened from white to ivory. Embroidered with a menorah ...
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 ...
"Tibetan Buddhist art is not only rich in figural icons but also extremely diverse in its symbols and ritual objects. As a first systematic review, Buddhist Ritual Art of Tibet is an abundantly ...
"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 ...