Discover the life and legacy of Lycurgus, Sparta's legendary lawgiver, whose reforms forged a society of equality and military discipline.

Several tombs in the necropolises of Egypt depict figures dancing across the walls and playing instruments. But when ...

Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.

Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a golden sun, ...