Discovered in a city in southern Turkey, this life-size male statue may represent an important deceased ancestor.

Toni Stone faced constant sexism and racism to become the first woman to play professional baseball: “She paid a mighty price ...

When Carole Roth arrived on the banks of New York Harbor in 1950, the weary Holocaust survivor finally felt free. “That’s ...

We're in the midst of irreversible climate change, but there is a better path forward.

Hello and welcome to another revamped edition of the Weekly Vine. Horrified by World War I, TS Eliot called April the ...

Before the internet runs wild with a new sphinx discovery, here's what experts have to say.

Local Christians denounced attacks on Saturday night in the city of Suqaylabiyah, a Christian stronghold. Sunni Islamic ...

Confederate iconography undergoes a rethink—and then some—at two Los Angeles museum spaces. It’s a proper burial for grotesque images—but in the age of Trump, are they really dead?

One of my favorite places to learn about China's ancient history is Dunhuang, a small, county-level city in Gansu province.

A flame goes out, and something in the room shifts with it. Not because matter has vanished, but because a structure has ...

Frank Mirabella wasn’t supposed to be in the first wave of troops who came ashore on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, in a ...

President Trump’s garish, piecemeal changes to Washington’s urban design and architecture are poised to destroy symbolism ...