F or American-born, London-based visual artist Janie Korn, taper candlemaking began in 2018 just for herself as an intimate ...

Cardinal David, one of the 133 cardinal electors who voted for the new pope, shares a rare glimpse into the Conclave.

The Japanese concept of kintsugi means ‘golden repair’. It is an ancient art of repairing broken pottery pieces using a mixture of lacquer and powdered gold, silver or platinum. The result is an ...

His unexplored tomb at Nemrut Dağ may show us more about death and worship in ancient Turkey. Several colossal heads that once stood in the mausoleum of Antiochus I of Commagene now lie in front ...

The ancient Greek word daimon—from which the modern "demon" derives—referred to god-like spirits and supernatural forces. While a daimon could be good or evil, the latter was a malevolent ...

Literature promoting the SaddleBrooke Ranch development west of Oracle touts feature after feature — high Sonoran Desert terrain with beautiful mountain views, “multimillion-dollar country ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. The Maya weavers worked mainly with cotton, which had to be washed and picked clean of seeds. This was hard work ...

In a 2017 study in the American Journal of Human Genetics, researchers looked at the ancient DNA of five Canaanites who lived between 3,650 and 3,750 years ago and who were buried in Sidon, an ...

Ancient Mesopotamia, centered in present-day Iraq, occupies a unique place in the history of human culture. It is there, around 3400–3000 BC, that all the key elements of urban civilization first ...