When the ceramicist Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye was forty years old, she bought herself a stuffed leopard at the Frankfurt airport, which she took with her on her next trip to Istanbul. Her mother had a ...

The 74th annual Miss Universe pageant is taking place in Thailand. Contestants competed in the pageant's national costume contest on Wednesday. The best looks of the event featured sparkly details, ...

When Christopher Donnan began studying the art created by Peru’s Moche culture more than 50 years ago, he wasn’t sure how much it reflected ancient reality. From about A.D. 200 to 850, the Moche lived ...

New research reveals that humanity’s earliest botanical art on ancient pottery featured complex mathematical patterns and ...

Archaeologists uncover a 2,500-year-old Greek statue in the Etruscan city of Vulci, revealing rare artistic links between ...

A remarkably intact pottery vessel dating back more than 10,000 years has been recovered from the depths of Lake Biwa, Japan, marking one of the oldest and most significant ceramic discoveries in ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

The scroll on the cup, which was found in Egypt, contains a phrase—“Muses who lead the chorus-leading hymn”—that cleverly slips in the name of the sixth-century B.C. poet Stesichorus. The text is ...

Human Reproduction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of human reproduction, including reproductive physiology and pathology, endocrinology, andrology, gonad function, ...

Plant reproduction is highly complex and variable across the kingdom. The emergence of sexual reproduction has contributed to increase plant genetic diversity and enabled the colonisation of new ...

A baby developing inside a womb. Reproduction means to have babies or offspring. Plants and animals both need to reproduce in order to survive but they do this in different ways. Animals need a male ...

Analyzing cultural-heritage artifacts remains challenging for MLLMs: general models lack domain expertise, and SFT often overfits superficial patterns, yielding brittle reasoning for authentication ...