A mix of ancient divinities, Aphrodite was patron over love, beauty, fertility, and war. But the venerated Greek deity has a ...

Babylonian kings routinely sacrificed royal stand-ins to avoid eclipse prophecies. From the museum's collection of 130,000 ...

The first day of the winter season has arrived on Saturday, Dec. 21 with widespread light snowfall and frigid conditions. Wind-chill values in major cities like New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia ...

Did you ever screw up your homework so badly that it gets preserved in stone and analyzed by researchers thousands of years ...

Well, someone in Babylon did. The artifact in question is ... Unearthed from the archaeological site of Kish in modern-day Iraq, this tablet is now housed in the Ashmolean Museum at the University ...

One half traversed the treacherous Gedrosian Desert (modern-day Balochistan), where many soldiers were lost. The other half navigated the Indus to the Arabian Sea. After reaching the more established ...

Used as early as 1500 BCE in Ancient Egypt and Babylon, sundials were among the only means to measure time prior to the advent of modern-day clocks. India has been a pioneer in the science and ...

Central to the Rastafarian faith is a critique of the Western civilization which is synonymous with the biblical system of Babylon. Prophet Bob Marley reminded ... of the Rastafarian movement longed ...

These movies, along with books and TV shows, turned Friday the 13th into a day of fright for millions. Modern-day superstitions Even today, many people avoid important activities on Friday the 13th.

From the writers and directors of Tales from the Borderlands and The Wolf Among Us, Dispatch is a superhero workplace comedy set in modern day Los Angeles. You play as Robert Robertson ...

President Biden issued a pardon for a Tennessee man on Thursday. This was part of the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. James Edgar Yarbrough is a 79-year-old man who was ...