Julius Caesar, whose biography, along with 11 Roman emperors, is documented in ‘The Lives of the Caesars’. Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art / CC0 1.0 An ancient book about the lives of Roman ...

Queen Esther was a figure of inspiration to Jews who had fled from oppressive regimes. In the Netherlands, she became a ...

Savvas Eleftherlades took a trip aboard the Oceania Cruises Riviera ship, setting sail from Athens and took in the Greek ...

The discovery of artifacts near the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun may be the oldest known evidence of a ritual known as the ...

He claimed that when Atlantis sank, these people migrated north and settled in what is now Germany. The existence of these “superhumans” was supposedly confirmed in an ancient Roman manuscript. The ...

Harco WillemsFragments from a Book of Two Ways discovered on the coffin of a woman named Ankh inside the necropolis of Deir ...

There are so many books to read on the porch in this glorious weather. This week, a thoughtful memoir, a fascinating ...

Carbon isn’t an enemy to “combat” or “tackle,” the environmentalist Paul Hawken writes, but the animating force of life ...

Even those who know little of ancient Egypt’s mysteries have heard of the infamous Book of the Dead. And now, researchers have found a similar text that not only predates that one, but may also be the ...

The West is no stranger to book bans. D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer were banned in multiple countries, including Australia, Britain, Canada and ...

Did the CIA use psychics to locate the Ark of the Covenant, one of the world’s holiest objects, lost for thousands of years?