Peter van Ham has been documenting the site of the Tabo monastery for 30 years, and thanks to Phase One it's now presented in ...

An analysis of ancient residues left on a vase depicting the Egyptian deity Bes reveals it may have been used to reenact a myth.

Correspondence between Malaysia’s Mahathir Mohamad and Britain’s Margaret Thatcher showed how differently the Muslim world ...

While the name James Tissot may not be as famous as fellow French artist Edgar Degas or the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, ...

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Declassified 1970s-era U.S. spy satellite imagery has led a British-Iraqi archeological team to what they believe is the site ...

Yet the meaning of the handwriting—like the Book of Daniel as a whole—is multilayered and mysterious, full of puns, wordplays ...

Why do so many people draw the Transamerica Pyramid wrong? As it turns out, the building plays a surprising trick on your ...

An image dating back to 1903 could be the first photograph of a sheikh in what is now UAE territory. On display at the ...

On one level, “Seeing Further” is about the touching folly of trying to reanimate a relic. With the help of a couple of ...

This heartbreaking and beautifully written book lays bare the horrors of the Nigerian Civil War. In the 1960s, Ugwu, a boy from a poor village, goes to work for a university professor. When the ...

As award season heats up, here are a dozen movies that could take the big prize — and how they might do it. By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Awards ...