Around since the seventh century B.C.E., libraries continue to pop up in countries, states, counties, cities and small ...

Located in Ostia Antica, the mikvah dates to the late fourth or early fifth century C.E. Researchers say it's the earliest ...

To mark its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum highlights the pieces that have shaped its collection—and the foundational art ...

The Maryland Department of Transportation launched an interactive virtual museum, showcasing finds from where Ben Ross lived ...

The marbles in the Torlonia Collection have been inaccessible to the public for decades. Now, some of them will be exhibited ...

Alice Stebbins Wells patrolled dance halls, skating rinks, penny arcades and movie theaters, keeping these public spaces free ...

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words— mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey any information about the topic of the ...

Scientists have identified 866 new species as part of the Ocean Census, a global mission to protect and accelerate the ...

Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...

After fifty years in culture work, Proschan has gifted his research as a folklorist and anthropologist to the Ralph Rinzler ...

One of the toilets, likely used by the crown prince and his court ladies, may have drained directly into a nearby river ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...