In a lecture titled The Ancient Maya: (Not a) Lost Civilization, Megan O'Neil, assistant professor of art history at Emory, discusses her new book in the Reaktion Books Lost Civilization series, The Maya, in which she demonstrates that this remarkable culture is anything but los

In celebration of the installation of the painting, "Grandmother Gestating Father and the Washita River Runs Ribbon-Like," Karen Kramer, Stuart W. and Elizabeth F.

Novelist Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni gives the 2023 Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies, discussing and reading from her new book, Independence.

The Buddha’s life story is generally said to begin at a moment other than his birth as Prince Gautama. Instead, it began many eons ago, during a previous lifetime, when as a learned Brahman, he vowed before the Buddha Dipankara that he, too, would one day become a buddha.

In a lecture titled "The Amarna Sunset," Aidan Dodson, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, explores what we know and can infer about the period of less than a decade that spanned the triumphal ‘durbar’ of Akhenaten’s Year 12 to the point at which Tutankhamun’s Restoration Stela

As an art student, Atlanta tattooist Lauren Visconti began visiting the Carlos's Greek and Roman galleries, where she loved to draw the drapery, anatomy, and curls of the ancient statues.

Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen gives a tour of the Carlos' most recent exhibition Making an Impression: The Art and Craft of Ancient Engraved Gemstones.

Curator of Greek and Roman Art Ruth Allen joins art historian and author James Cahill as they discuss his “electric” debut novel, Tiepolo Blue, in which the life and career of a revered but repressed British art historian at the height of his powers are turned upside-down, leading to a s