The bestselling historical novelist Elodie Harper will write her first books for children, an “ancient Rome meets My Family ...

An interview with renowned economic historian Michael Hudson on where our calendar comes from, his collaborations with the ...

That highest of holy days, Yom Kippur, is nowadays focused on fasting, prayer, and spiritual introspection. But in ancient ...

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While the 'other thing' is just as unkosher as oysters or cheeseburgers, the taboo around it practically delineates Judaism ...

Courtesy: CPW, Two Great Horned Owls released back into the wild ...

Monks centuries ago crafted their religious documents on vellum, which is made from an animal skin, usually calf, goat or ...

One ancient practice leading to another ... The idea of a life course of a year, with weather, people, and animals traveling ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish ...

Take Marcus Antonius Exochus, whose story is told on his tombstone. Though much of his life and death remains a mystery, it is known that he traveled from his home of Alexandria, Egypt, to Rome in ...