The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

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.

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

India’s spiritual landscape is vast, layered, and ancient — a civilization where gods have risen, thrived, and in some cases, ...

When we think of Lord Hanuman, the image that instantly comes to mind is of a devoted disciple tearing open his chest to ...