Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

Yes! I thought, as I read these lines from the Russian American poet Joseph Brodsky in a 1989 love poem, “A Song.” There’s ...

Author Dava Sobel discusses how she discovered the many forgotten female scientists who were mentored by Marie Curie in early ...

According to Egyptian mythology, Horus was the son of Osiris, the god of the underworld. Horus fought his uncle Seth to see who would be ruler of Egypt. During the fight, Seth mut ...

Demeter was one of the twelve Olympian gods believed by the ancient Greeks to rule over the cosmos. She was the sister of Zeus and patron goddess of agriculture. She was commonly depicted wearing a ...

In her centennial year, the Cuban singer will be honored with the Legend Award at Billboard’s Latin Women in Music gala on April 24.

In Greek mythology, Eos was the goddess of the dawn. Though, like other primordial gods, she was not widely worshiped by the ...

A climate in which science, art, and culture flourished in the Golden Age of Islam and the conditions that foretold the Age’s ...