Dressed head to toe in white, hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians packed tightly into Washington, D.C.’s DSK Mariam ...

Was Pope Leo just sharing the gospel or overdoing his critique? Are Trump’s appeals for prayer during wartime justified or an ...

Ark of the Covenant Was Built to Challenge Egyptian Gods, New Theory Suggests ...

Sinai rock shelter preserves 10,000 years of drawings, tools, and inscriptions, showing repeated human return to one desert ...

While Athens and Sparta dominate the history book, there are lesser-known ancient Greek city-states that contributed to Greek ...

Since any public school student is allowed to engage in silent prayer at any time of the school day or read their Bible ...

This was the Piri Reis map, a world chart compiled in 1513 by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis. While the map is famous for its early depiction of the Americas, a new wave of academic ...

Studying ancient history means encountering some unsettling traditions. For me, that included learning about “sunjang,” a ...

The theft shocked the art world and caused a diplomatic incident, with incensed Romanian officials breathing down the neck of ...

A recent archaeological excavation in northwest China has uncovered a 3,000-year-old burial site containing deliberately broken bronze weapons, offering a remarkable glimpse into ancient attitudes ...

If you trace the animal family tree back through the fossil record, the trail usually goes cold about 539 million years ago. Before this boundary—the start of the famous Cambrian explosion—multicelled ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...