The roughly 11,000 inscriptions preserved by Mount Vesuvius' eruption in 79 C.E. offer a glimpse into everyday life in the ...

I thought that this month I would share with you a few reflections on a subject which has brought me endless pleasure ...

The icon known as Sappho was an ancient Greek powerhouse, well-known and well-loved for her lyric poems during the seventh ...

What truly irked them over the decades was that lord Macaulay did not assert, categorically, that only the Brahmins and other ...

We've ranked the most interesting archaeological finds of all time, ranging from the intricate ruins of Machu Picchu to the ...

For 22-year-old Zou Yu, a student in the opera class at Fuzhou Vocational Technical College in east China's Jiangxi Province, the day usually begins at 5 a.m. Every day, she and her classmates undergo ...

Congratulations! You made it through Christmas, and now you’re looking forward to spreading out a beach towel by the pool, ...

The scene suggests Tradies Day Out on a Jurassic-era lake. Towering limestone islands rise from a jungle-framed waterway that ...

I drove the 15-hour and nearly 700-mile journey across the state, traversing mountain ranges and rock slides, dirt roads and agricultural checkpoints, from Marin to Modoc County.

The Holy Spirit is present throughout the Nativity story. So why is the third person of the Trinity absent from our Christmas ...

Gage survived, but unfortunately, it wasn't a total happy ending. His friends and doctor said that, post-accident, he was “no ...

The question of Helen’s involvement in the Trojan War clearly poses difficult questions—and has done so ever since the age of ...