If you consider yourself an art history buff, test your smarts with Anthropeum. The game pulls ten images from the Met's open-access archive and challenges players to identify each artifact's time and ...

The government also announced an expansion of mental health emergency departments, so people needing immediate help won't ...

Every time someone slips a wedding ring onto the fourth finger, they’re taking part in a tradition that has survived for ...

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

Beneath the Ashes: The Hidden Library of Herculaneum Over 2,000 years ago, the personal library of Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus—father-in-law to Julius Caesar—was entombed beneath mudflows with ...

With more and more young people trading screen time for the old-fashioned charms of reading physical books, Mariam Thabet ...

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Christopher Nolan gives us a psychologically modern Odysseus who undergoes a traumatic dissociation, is wracked by guilt but accepts that he must move on — this “complicated” man is a far cry from ...

The story of maritime chokepoints is centuries old — from a papal line down the Atlantic to Iran's toll at the Strait of Hormuz. History and the rules today ...

From hearing the name inside the store to being called out while on errands and in grocery stores, Jill Furman, owner and ...

It was one of history’s most dramatic moments—but the eruption of Mount Vesuvius wasn’t a single disaster. Recent evidence reveals how three settlements faced three distinct fates, reshaping our ...

The earliest surviving fragments of the epic poem—the subject of Christopher Nolan's latest Hollywood blockbuster—date back more than 2,000 years. But oral storytelling about a hero named Odysseus is ...