It only takes one call for prayer, or al-athaan in Arabic, to make one pause, even for a millisecond. And in that small ...

Local creativity has been bubbling, the boundaries of Israeli cinema have expanded, and even the Oscars have felt almost ...

“Yet the Human Endures” exhibition of the unacquired works of late artist Safwat Abbas (1931 – 2014). He represented an ideal model for the creative artist who believes in his society; he was ...

In the real world, convinced that aliens were planning to beam him into the sky, Daniel says that he repeatedly drove his ...

A painting of a woman on lime wood is one of the mummy portraits being studied by researchers using special camera filters under different light wavelengths (left to right: visible, ultraviolet, and ...

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the exiled actress, an icon of Iranian women's fight for freedom, responds for the first time to the ongoing massacres in Iran.

As custodians of ancient wisdom, Egyptian priests explored ritual, science, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality unlike ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

The Greek goddess Chimera, was a monstrous composition of disparate parts that embodied an ancient fear of females.

These 15 Greek god animals served as sacred symbols and divine messengers in ancient mythology — and their meanings still ...

In different passage, Aulus tells us about some bookstalls he came across when he arrived by ship at the port of Brundisium ...