A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...

The objects are indeed real – they are the centuries-old skeletal, human remains exhumed from Rome's underground catacombs.

It is a very interesting history of the physical printed book which is very timely during these contemporary times because the book is increasingly becoming online.

Ellipses are defined as curves that surround two focal points. At any point on the ellipse, the sum of the distance to both ...

Also: The hundred-year-old jazz saxophonist Marshall Allen, Baz Luhrmann’s dramatic new East Village bar, Alice Childress’s ...

Cristina Roccati graduated from the University of Bologna when few other Italian women earned degrees, and she taught physics ...

It's most likely screwdrivers were invented in the late 15th century, about the time Columbus discovered the New World, in ...

Technological advancements made the development of these engines possible -- and forever changed the way outside observers ...

As for wood, the amount burned for energy today is greater than at any time in history. Overall, burning wood supplies the ...

The critically acclaimed St. Charles Singers, led by founder and music director Jeffrey Hunt, will conclude its 40th ...

Selected by Carl J. Schramm, the author, most recently, of ‘Burn the Business Plan: What Great Entrepreneurs Really Do.’ ...