Once vassals to pharaohs, the Kushite kings of Nubia took control of Egypt for almost a century. Embracing Egyptian rituals, ...

Each Valentine’s Day, when I see images of the chubby winged god Cupid taking aim with his bow and arrow at his unsuspecting ...

How patrons of the arts became plutocrats aboard yachts. I n the early 1500s, an unknown wealthy patron is said to have ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

For the first time, scientists have completed an in-depth analysis of fossilized soft tissues from a plesiosaur ...

If you look south just after dark, you’ll see the easily recognizable constellation Orion, the Hunter. Above and to the ...