Are all those ancient sculptors conning us? No amount of philosophy explains some of Greece’s more peculiar customs.

The statue, now known as the Halsted Athena, portrays the goddess wearing a warrior’s helmet, her hand extended outward as if ...

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

Whether it’s in Egypt, Brazil or Japan, these very big travel plans have one thing in common: supporting small, community-owned businesses.

The attacker drove a truck into crowds of New Year's Day revelers in New Orleans, killing 15 in total and wounding 30. Police officers stand at the scene where a truck drove into a large crowd on ...

On Agilkia Island, I’d stop by the temple of Isis, the goddess of magic and fertility who was central to Egyptian mythology, and continue toward Abu Simbel, home to giant statues and temples built by ...

The statue’s wide-open arms, spanning 92 feet, seem to personally welcome the more than 4 million visitors who make the trek to see the monument each year. But now, its management and future are ...

The Syrians — some of them soldiers and relatives of the U.S. -backed Syrian Free Army forces against now-deposed President Bashar al-Assad — arrived fleeing ISIS when the militant group swept ...

The U.S. military conducted an airstrike on Monday in Syria, where they killed a pair of ISIS operatives and destroyed a truckload of weapons, according to U.S. Central Command. A precision ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Monday it conducted an airstrike in Syria that killed two Islamic State operatives and wounded one. The Islamic State operatives were ...

“Turkish-backed forces have ramped up attacks against our Syrian Kurdish partners, once again threatening the vital mission of preventing the resurgence of ISIS,” the senators said in a statemen ...