Discovered in a loft space at the Cambridge University college, in what was likely the northwest wall of its original library, the paintings feature three crowned motifs: a portcullis on the left, a ...

An unassuming Tudor hunting lodge in the Cumbrian district in the U.K. just gave up a wild secret: rare wall paintings from the 16th century that depict a host of truly fantastical beasts. Known as ...

ASHKELON, Israel (AP) — Two nearly 2,000-year-old tombs with magnificent wall paintings will be open to the public for the first time in southern Israel after a painstaking conservation process, the ...

'Priceless' Mayan wall paintings discovered in a house in Guatemala blend indigenous techniques with colonial-era Spanish motifs, researchers have revealed. The artworks — thought to date back to ...

Removing bits of plaster ahead of an extensive repair project on Yorkshire, England's Calverley Old Hall led to uncovering a "time machine" to wall paintings created in the 1500s. The Landmark Trust ...

French Medieval wall paintings hidden for more than 500 years in the Angers cathedral have been digitally restored, according to the Hamilton Kerr Institute Bulletin. The late 13th century paintings ...

Originally the walls of the Abbey would have been whitened and coloured in red lines with rosettes. A fragment of this design was seen in the early 20th century, hidden behind a blocked recess at the ...

It was two weeks before the bat mitzvah, and the family was having a small crisis: The front wall of the Aspen Chapel, the backdrop to the bat mitzvah ceremony, just wouldn’t do. So the father asked ...