When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BCE, he signaled the beginning of the era of Ptolemaic rule. His general ...

The funeral sets off the first of nine days of official Vatican mourning for Francis, who took over following the resignation ...

Oldest gym membership written in Greek on papyrus 1,800 years ago reveals structured athletic life in Roman Egypt.

Cancer is a homebody, sincerely desiring to build safe havens for their loved ones. They have a heart of gold, full of sympathy, compassion, and love. Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, brings warmth ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Astrology meets geography in a fun exploration. Each zodiac sign finds its European counterpart. Aries embodies Spain's fiery ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

This year's theme is Heritage under Threat from Disasters and Conflicts: Preparedness and Learning from 60 Years of ICOMOS ...

This May, internationally respected astrologer Steve Judd will host  and headline ‘Shifts Happen: Because Therapy Doesn't Do ...

Long before the rise of Oxford and Harvard, India was home to some of the world’s earliest and most celebrated centers of learning. These ancient universities, now largely forgotten by the mainstream ...