Did the Jewish Religion Emerge from Christianity? Contrary to popular belief, Christianity did not originate from the Jewish ...
The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...
Rome and Ostia to this day are pockmarked with remnants of Jewish heritage: a menorah on the bas-relief of the first-century ...
Rigas Feraios was a Greek revolutionary who fought in the mountains and worked as a writer, merchant, and agitator in the ...
Ash Wednesday occurred earlier this week and it marks the first day of Lent. The Christian church set this date in the fourth century by counting back 40 days from ...
Researchers have uncovered a vast and well-preserved network of ancient irrigation canals in the Eridu region of southern ...
Christian nationalism was a flop when the Puritans tried it. See this famous Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpture for information ...
In his richly researched newsletter, amateur historian Robert Francis takes deep dives into the country's complicated and ...
Major underwriting for Season 1 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by Robert Lehman Foundation, PBS, National Endowment for the Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Rockefeller ...
In the middle of the sixth century B.C., King Croesus of Lydia minted the world's first gold coin. Known as a stater or ...
He set up workshops in Sardis, the capital of Lydia, to refine gold and silver from electrum. These first coins were about the size of a dime and were standardized at 10.7 grams (about one-third ...
In his first month in office, President Donald Trump has upended the nation’s nearly century-old approach to global affairs.