The sweat of ancient Greek and Roman athletes was a prized commodity believed to confer special health benefits.
The Batu Hitam provides irrefutable proof of this colorful revolution's commercial triumph.
There's something rather poetic about a service designed to breathe life back into poetry getting resurrected after all these ...
As Saudi Arabia's largest contemporary art platform hosts its third edition, the artistic directors of the Diriyah Biennale reveal how ancient Bedouin journeys have inspired a radical new vision. #Art ...
Kimberly Blaeser, a former poet laureate of Wisconsin, will accept a prize from the National Book Foundation next month for her collection of poems, Ancient Light.
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Medieval monks wrote over a copy of an ancient star catalog. Now, a particle accelerator is revealing the long-lost original text
A little more than a thousand years ago, monks at Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert removed Western ...
Valentine’s Day did not begin as a celebration of love, but its roots can be traced back to ancient Rome and the mid-February holiday called Lupercalia. Lupercalia was a fertility festival that ...
Andrea Breard, professor of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) in Erlangen, Germany, speaks at the International Symposium on Young Sinologists and Mutual Learning Among ...
The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri.
New research reveals western India's savannas are ancient natural ecosystems. Historical texts from the 13th century describe ...
As I raised my son, I learned that passing down poems, memory, and language can be a quiet but powerful act of resistance.
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