Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.

Arguably the best example of this engineering marvel exists in modern-day Iran, where the technology was invented over 3,000 ...

Ram and Ravana, the synonyms for good and evil respectively in the Hindu world, have travelled together for millennia, ...

The concept, or perhaps conceit, of an author organizing a wealth of knowledge into a comprehensive explanation of world ...

Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann was a larger-than-life figure, discovering Troy in what is now Hisarlik, in modern-day ...

From ancient Mesopotamia to medieval Italy to modern corporations, accounting has evolved to become a keystone of business ...

I have been studying Greek history for a very long time. In fact, I learned ancient and medieval Greek history at the ...

The truth is a concept, a lens, and an experiential world view that differs greatly between Black, Indigenous, non-Black, and white citizens of America.

Once derided, La Grande Motte, a surreal 1960s resort in the South of France, is increasingly seen as having been ahead of ...

Due to age and conflict, not too many Northern Song books were lucky enough to survive, according to Chen Hongyan, head of the ancient book department at the NLC. Only three books in the collection of ...

The modern West traces its heritage to Greece and Rome, societies that themselves owed a debt to the cultures that preceded ...

The offending material is being pulled by the Educational Company of Ireland after uproar in Ireland, where the book was part of the curriculum for 14 and 15-year-olds. In a chapter called All ...