In one hand, the dancers hold swords symbolizing battle. In the other, a piece of cloth symbolizing peace. They dance a shuffling ...

In a world increasingly shaped by megabytes and microchips, the connection between ancient scripture and digital innovation may seem improbable. Yet, today, churches are livestreaming services, ...

Wei Wu Xian is the charming rebel with a flute, while Lan Wang Ji is the silent, brooding rule-follower. They’re polar ...

Artists from different cultural traditions adapted an ancient tale to explore how to respond to betrayal and exploitation.

Ancient hunter-gatherers built monumental mounds at Kaillachuro in Peru without kings, rewriting history of "monumental ...

The first recorded evidence of marriage ceremonies uniting one woman and one man dates from about 2350 B.C., in Mesopotamia. Over the next several hundred years, marriage evolved into a widespread ...

Superfans of Lisa Rinna may have spotted The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills breakout star around Paris this week — though her signature honey blonde spiky bob was noticeably absent. Instead, Rinna ...

A woman who submitted her DNA for genetic testing 'on a whim' could never have predicted that the results would change her ...

Those the church rejected were composed much later, which, as Pagels knows, automatically raises questions about their ...

More than a thousand years after it was last heard, an AI translator has brought a long-lost hymn to the ancient city of ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

The Manchester Museum in England is inviting guests to share feedback on Asru, an ancient Egyptian woman whose body was ...