Deriving from springs in a cliff almost 200 m high overlooking the plain, calcite-laden waters have created at Pamukkale (Cotton Palace) an unreal landscape, made up of mineral forests, petrified ...

Yuri Grigorovich, the Russian choreographer, who has died aged 98, was artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 30 years, its defining choreographer and the single most influential ...

Working with First Nations communities on Country in the Northern Tablelands Local Land Services region to care for woodlands and turtles. improve the condition and extent of the critically endangered ...

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.

In 301 BC Lysimachus , king of Thrace, took control of western Anatolia (Lydia, Ionia and Phrygia), including Pergamon. With the great riches he had accumulated as the spoils of war, Lysimachus began ...

Philostratus, The Life of Apollonius of Tyana, translated from Greek by F. C. Conybeare (New York, 1912).The download contains both volumes of the Loeb Classical Library series (L16N and L17N) in 1252 ...