“If it’s not about a king, then I’m not interested!” ...

The fall festival of Sukkot, for example, is celebrated in small booths, temporary shelters that recall the Israelites’ ...

Interestingly, the idea that the Jews killed Jesus is also found in Jewish religious literature. In tractate Sanhedrin of the ...

The first X-ray images ever taken are now part of the Memory of the World Register of United Nations Educational, Scientific ...

One of the most fascinating chapters of Simkovich’s book is an exploration of the origins of word diaspora itself.

"If it's not about a king, then I'm not interested!" This is the defiant yet adorable response of Walter Dickens, the son of ...

this literature has been in the process of reconstruction by a small band of scholars for the past 150 years. Comparatively little of that scholarly effort has been directed towards communicating the ...

James Santoro, who grew up in northern New Jersey before his family moved to Florida, majored in finance (15-3) with a minor in literature and creative writing at MIT. He served as Vice President of ...

What is the origin of the word ‘algorithm’? It is a muffled echo of the last part of the name Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, an Islamic polymath of the ninth century who also gave us the word al-jabr ...

Few figures in Ancient Greek literature have been as consequential, controversial, and enigmatic as Apollonius of Rhodes.

Author Charlie Jane Anders reflects on reading and writing young adult literature in an era of explosive popularity that may ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...