What does it mean to love our children equally? It’s a question that many families wrestle with, especially when each ...

The “foundling infant” motif was a staple of ancient literature (think: Oedipus), but the Bible seems determined to undermine the ‘unwanted’ theme: this baby is carefully placed in a well ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise, side B of an Attic black-figure amphora. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen Wikimedia Commons CC BY 2.5 Estimating the population of ancient Greece is a ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

Jaramana, Syria - Since the fall of Bashar Al-Assad's regime, the Druze community, historically located in the Suwayda governorate in the south of Syria, has been striving to preserve its autonomy ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

The dictator has fallen in Syria, but what the new government will look like is still unclear. In this series, VOA’s Heather Murdock asks some in the country’s key minority groups what they ...

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.