Sixteen hundred years ago, St. Augustine of Hippo wrote “City of God,” a theological masterpiece written for society in ...

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas tells the story of Jesus as a child. What happens in this story, and why was it rejected from ...

While we know the manuscript spent at least 650 years at Kells, we do not know where it started its life. Now a new book offers some clues as to its provenance.

The offering was for Ochún: the Lucumí orisha, or deity of fresh water, luxury, love, beauty and sweet things. Álvarez León, ...

A two-thousand-year-old cup, often referred to as the ‘Jesus Cup’, was retrieved from the sea and may be the earliest known reference to Jesus Christ. This significant discovery was found in Egypt and ...

This now-extinct tongue was probably spoken somewhere in Eurasia as many as 8,000 years ago. But how do we know ...

Alexander Grothendieck was a titan in his field, making deep connections that fuelled a revolution in mathematics, before ...

For two thousand years, Mary—the mother of Jesus—has been honored in cathedrals, hymns, and paintings as the Virgin Mother of ...

On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...