“We have to strip away the politics imposed on the building, like peeling an onion, to understand why and how it was built,” says Beatrice St. Laurent, an American art historian who studied ...

ATLANTIC CITY — Tina Notaro has given juggling lessons ... “48 Blocks” featured musical and theater performances, art exhibits and tours, workshops, poetry readings, comedy acts, and more ...

Jewish tradition forbade burial within the walls of a city, and the Gospels specify that Jesus was buried outside of Jerusalem, near the site of his crucifixion on Golgotha ("the place of skulls").

The ancient Citadel and surrounding cultural landscape of the Iranian city of Bam, where 26,000 people lost their lives in the earthquake of December 2003, was simultaneously inscribed on UNESCO’s ...

Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday. Stoking fears of a wider conflict after Israel ...

Air raid sirens sounded across Israel, including in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, sending residents rushing into shelters as ...