Snow cover across the Western U.S. is 66% below average this season. That's why skiers and riders are flying to Whistler Blackcomb this winter.

Andrew Oddy looks back on his career as Keeper of Conservation at the British Museum and the exposure test that bears his name ...

The greatest stamp discovery in modern history is expected to bring $5m to $7.5m We all dream of opening an old book or ...

Two and a half years (and one grand homecoming) later, the Frick is going back to its roots by spotlighting one of the 18th-century portraitists that enchanted both Hendricks and the museum’s founder, ...

Richard Carrington’s name has long been connected with the most intense solar storm ever recorded, but his face was unknown ...

The fundraising campaign"captured the public's imagination with the untold love story the Tudor Heart tells between Henry and ...

Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Artemisia Gentileschi and a major Italian acquisition drove another record week for Old Masters.

In ancient China, jade discs were elite ceremonial objects placed in burials as symbols of a gateway to heaven and the ...

Chennai: After six decades of delighting book lovers, the British Council Library in Chennai is shutting down with the lease for its premises on Mount Road ending. The library has begun selling its ...

Join us for a talk by Professor Malavika Kasturi on Banaras’s Mughal past, revealing the city’s cosmopolitan histories. Banaras is largely perceived and understood as a Hindu 'sacred space’ par ...

Exclusive: Collection includes workbooks and index cards, and papers that show his research for bestseller Akenfield One hundred years of a unique literary rural life will be made available to readers ...

LONDON -- The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Thursday by adding ten online novels by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land, and The Joy of Life. This follows ...