Fingerprints on a Roman burial hold new clues to an unusual liquid gypsum funeral ritual. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Around ...

The horse likely swiveled its ears when it heard the deafening roar from Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79. That was one of the last things the animal ever did: After that, it died, buried in the massive ...

They are the first thing you reach for when you cut yourself and a staple of the first-aid box. But gone are the days when the only choice of plaster was a fabric strip — now there is a multitude of ...

If Beth Cayre had to move, she would regret leaving the dining room ceiling, with its plaster cherry blossom branches hand molded by ceramics artist Matthew Solomon. And who could blame her? The ...

In 1962, Maria Bartuszová filled a condom with plaster, left it to turn solid, put it on a base and eventually cast it in aluminium. The untitled work was, she said in notes accompanying drawings, ...