During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

I am only 7 days late in the 24-hour news cycle. Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega were arrested after Belarus air traffic ...

(RNS) — Despite both having a history of persecution, the groups’ alliance has repeatedly been tested.

One of Israel’s leading archaeologists, he found evidence that the writing of the Old Testament likely began much earlier than historians had thought.

Learn about the ship with 3D views, video animations, life-sized reconstructions and narrative storytelling; view artifacts; ...

A familiar portrait of Anne Boleyn has just yielded an unfamiliar secret. Infrared scanning and tree-ring dating suggest an Elizabethan artist deliberately altered the so-called “Hever Rose” portrait ...

The Star Wars canon was always long and complex, and Disney's retconning after buying it simplified things. But not ...

On the surface, perhaps, but Under Salt Marsh is much more than that. Claire Oakley, who has form with thrillers set in marginal seaside communities with her excellent 2020 film Make Up, has written a ...

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula hides a natural wonder so mesmerizing it feels like you’ve stumbled into some fantasy novel – ...

This is not just a festival unfolding in Kerala. On the banks of the Bharathapuzha river, history is being rewritten, and a new religious claim is taking shape.

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Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient world. Alamy Chronicle's illustration of "Joshua at Jericho." Jericho's ...