Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times Share CHAMPAIGN — Benet’s personnel was well-known entering the season. Seven-footer Colin Stack, 6-9 Southern Illinois recruit Daniel Pauliukonis and guards ...

Kirsten Stickney/For the Sun-Times Share CHAMPAIGN — Coaches love defense. Benet and Evanston are well-coached teams and have the defensive stuff figured out. Halfway through the third quarter ...

Wright scored 15 points in Benet’s 55-54 win. (Vincent D. Johnson / Naperville Sun) Benet guard Jayden Wright can beat teams in a variety of ways. Some games, the 5-foot-11 junior does it by ...

NORMAL, Illinois — Everyone knows about Benet junior guard Jayden Wright’s 3-point shooting prowess by now. But beyond the arc isn’t the only area where Wright is proficient. Take free-throw ...

Evanston sophomore Vito Rocca goes up for a layup among a crowd of Benet defenders, including Colin Stack, right, and Daniel Pauliukonis during Friday night’s Class 4A state semifinal game at ...

The stuff of dreams for any archaeologist, Piers Litherland and his team, working on a British-Egyptian excavation, might have stumbled upon the second tomb of King Thutmose II in the Western ...

Thutmose II was the fourth ruler of the illustrious ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty, which included Tutankhamun. Now, the location of his long-lost tomb, one of the last missing royal tombs ...

Jewelry was an important part of ancient Egyptian culture. Excavation at the Karnak temple found a 2,600-year-old pot filled with gold jewelry, beads, and statues. The statues of Egyptian gods ...

Animals in ancient Egypt were mummified for use as votive offerings. The objects often took the form of the god being offered to—in this case, the croc-headed god Sobek. (From cats to crocodiles ...

Halle Berry has had absolutely enough of folks speaking down on her love life. And now she’s clapping back once and for all. Speaking in a new interview on “The Drew Barrymore Show” on ...

The tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose II is the first royal crypt discovered in recent years, and scientists have new powerful tools to analyze it. Egypt's Valley of the Kings is part of a massive ...