Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the ...

The Great Wall of China wasn’t a single construction project, but rather a series of defensive and border fortifications ...

This inaugural printed Hebrew edition of the Prophets, with Kimhi’s scholarly annotations, was produced in 1485 by the esteemed Joshua Solomon ben Israel Nathan Soncino. This edition, which predates ...

A few months ago, while studying away in the Hatcher carrels, my eye caught something unexpected—a copy of the Boburnoma ...

Hathor is an ancient Egyptian A-lister, a sun deity teeming with feminine energy and a potent symbol of fertility, love, and ...

Learn about, about primstav, the wooden calendar stick used in Norway and to mark the seasons and important days: of the year ...

This medicinal plant was so coveted, it was worth its weight in gold. But this ultimately brought its downfall.

With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food ...

Join us as we journey through the history of timekeeping, from ancient civilizations to the Julian calendar introduced by Julius Caesar and how the inaccuracies in the led to Pope Gregory to an ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Premanand Maharaj, also known as Govind Sharan Ji Maharaj, has decided to indefinitely suspend his nightly padayatra in Vrindavan due to complaints fr ...

EMERY COUNTY, Utah (KSTU) — A destructive trend that has become a common occurrence in Utah has once again turned up after ancient petroglyphs were found vandalized in Emery County. Graffiti was ...