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In a stunning find, researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Birmingham have uncovered a huge expanse of quarry floor filled with hundreds of different dinosaur footprints, creating multiple enormous trackways. Dating back to the Middle Jurassic Period (around 166 million years ago), the trackways form part of a huge ‘dinosaur highway’ and include footprints from the 9 metre ferocious predator Megalosaurus, and herbivorous dinosaurs up to twice that size.

The stolen archaeological artifacts were found after several investigations by Italian police in various cities, including Rome, Perugia, Ancona, and Consenza. The investigation was also coordinated by five public prosecutor offices in Rome, Pordenone, Florence, Ancona, and Palmi.

The Egyptian-Dominican archaeological mission, led by Dr. Kathleen Martinez in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU), has uncovered foundation deposits beneath the southern wall of the enclosure at the Taposiris Magna Temple, west of Alexandria.

The Vatican on Monday launched the official mascot for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year, a cartoon character called Luce, whose name means "light" in Italian.

For the first time, the Musée du Louvre is dedicating an exhibition to Cimabue, one of the most important artists of the 13th century.

Three Downing Street visitor books are included in this December’s Cabinet Office file release. The red leather-bound volumes are the first ever released by the Government and provide a fascinating insight into eminent visitors passing through the doors of Number 10 between 1970-2003.

Researchers from Zayed National Museum have unveiled text concealed beneath an intricate decorative layer of gold leaf on a page of the Blue Qur’an - one of the world’s most well-known and recognisable Qur’an manuscripts and most important examples of Islamic calligraphy. Using multispectral imaging techniques, the team uncovered verses from Surah al Nisa’.

December 31st marks the end of the financial year, a crucial moment to evaluate the budget policies that will influence the near future. In terms of ugly cuts to budget, the situation seems similar in all the countries with a conservative government, in the US as in Europe. In Italy, the cultural sector continues to struggle with insufficient funding, with only 0.4% of the state budget allocated to its development.

The "Next" exhibition series, organized by the Amici dei Musei Siciliani association to commemorate the theft of Caravaggio's Nativity with Saints Lawrence and Francis of Assisi, celebrated its 15th edition with an artwork by Michelangelo Pistoletto, one of Europe’s most renowned Italian artists and a leading figure in the Arte Povera movement.

Didier Rykner, a French journalist, art historian and founder of La Tribune de l’Art, a magazine dedicated to preserving France’s heritage, has described the idea of replacing the windows as “totally ludicrous”. He has launched a petition against the plan that has already more then 250,000 signatures.

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presenting the first major retrospective in Europe of Olga de Amaral, a key figure of the Colombian art scene and of Fiber Art.

Damien Hurst is a famous British artist. He has been accused of backdating works of art that were used in an NFT project. We discuss the accusations and how NFT art could fare in the current cryptocurrency rally.

Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” depicts a swirling blue sky with yellow moon and stars. The sky is an explosion of colors and shapes, each star encapsulated in ripples of yellow, gleaming with light like reflections on water.

As markets evolve and consumer behaviors shift, businesses must rethink how their brands are perceived.

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents Exploring the Alps, an exhibition that illustrates how 19th-century artists depicted the largest mountain range in Europe through pastels, ink sketches, watercolors, and photographs.

In perfect timing to receive the thousands of faithful and visitors who will flock to the Eternal City for the opening of the Jubilee Year – the glass “roof” of the Vatican Museums’ “Courtyard of the Corazze” entrance unveiled its new green and eco-friendly guise, thanks to the construction, in the record time of six months, of a roof system with latest-generation photovoltaic glass panels.

Since the 1980s the art historian and exhibition curator, Peter Lord, has been exploring the myth that there is ‘no Welsh art’, discovering and recording Welsh art and artists.

The Diriyah Biennale Foundation announces And all that is in between as the title for the second edition of the Islamic Arts Biennale, set to open from January 25 until May 25, 2025 in Jeddah, a city that has represented a meeting point of cultures for centuries.

The first Rijksmuseum Artist in Residence is Dutch-Argentinian artist Aimée Zito Lema.

Russian researchers unveiled the remains of a 50,000-year-old baby mammoth discovered in the Yakutia region of Siberia.