As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

I remember growing up on Hydra every summer in the 1980s, leaving Salt Lake City, Utah to go to our home on my father’s ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

An method driven by artificial intelligence is making it possible to read texts scorched and left buried by the eruption of ...

For the past two years, citizen scientists and scholars have been working to reveal the previously hidden texts of the ...

The so-called “stateless people,” who originally migrated from northern India to Europe in the 14th century, are today ...

It’s that time of the year again as college students across the country get set for the famous Spring Break vacation, with varying dates for celebrations.

Archaeologists Uncover Roman Mask Mold Depicting Medusa, Say It Was Used as a Protective Charm The archaeological site of ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

The Rwanda-backed rebels who captured a major city in eastern Congo have sought to reassure its residents about their safety. The rebels held a rally at the city stadium in ...

In John Irving’s next book, the author is returning to St. Cloud’s, Maine, and to the orphanage made famous in his acclaimed ...