Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday. Some ...

Could an ancient Athenian understand a Byzantine Greek speaker and realize they spoke different versions of the same language ...

The UNESCO - listed city of Chersonesus, located on the southwestern part of the Crimean peninsula was an ancient Greek ...

What is Orthodox Christmas? And why do millions of people celebrate it on January 7 - The ancient church in the Roman Empire ...

Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be the best day of the year for you and your fellow sunlight seekers. The summer solstice falls late in the day on Friday, June 20 in the ...

A 7,000-year-old grave site in present-day Oman indicates that the region’s Neolithic communities sometimes turned to an ...

Flower designs on 8,000-year-old Mesopotamian pots reveal a “mathematical knowledge” perhaps developed to share land and ...

Link found between super-agers, or people with exceptional longevity, to inherited DNA from Ice Age hunter-gatherer ...

Today, trans people face politicization of their lives and vilification from politicians, media and parts of broader society.

New archaeological evidence is helping rewrite old myths about disabled people in the ancient world. Early Roman Empire depiction of a Freedman and Freedwoman, 30-15 BCE. British Museum, London, UK.

If you grew up in a Slavic country, your culture might be extremely important to you. Whether it’s having a fridge full of pickled vegetables and beer, spending hours on the phone each day talking to ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. I grew up speaking Russian ...