If the best-known glories of ancient Egypt are the pyramids, the mummies and the gold of Tutankhamun, then ancient ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.

The translation of ancient Assyrian writing into modern languages was a challenge that had long vexed historians. Three ...

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was rewritten by ...

Introduction The digital transformation of education has occurred but most online learning solutions have not adapted to ...

A Cornish landscape labyrinth made up of more than 140,000 stones which is the largest of its kind on the planet opens to the ...

The Haggadah makes clear that the Exodus was not an end in itself, but rather the first step in the return to the Land of ...

The X-Men have introduced hundreds of characters over the years, with some of them ranking among Marvel's most intelligent ...

The Rational Child, the Depressed Child, the Selfish Child, and the Apathetic Child. G-d believes in the youth. You must too!

Photograph by AKG/Album Early Muslim medicine drew on traditional practices from the region, some dating back to ancient Mesopotamia ... Roman culture preserved in Egypt and the Near East.

This was certainly not the first time that the fabled ark has been found. Where could the Ark of the Covenant be? It depends on who you ask. Some scholars will say it’s very muc ...