The Stoic task is very precise. It is to recognize an incoming impression, slow down the movement from impression to judgment, and choose an action that remains faithful to truth, justice, and the ...

The result adds a new line of evidence to a long-running question in human evolution: not simply when our ancestors first ...

The Black Death did not mark the end of plague in Europe. A new study of ancient DNA reveals that Yersinia pestis resurfaced ...

In 367, Alexandria’s bishop Athanasius sent churches in Egypt a list of books for public reading. The Book of Enoch was not on it. Yet Jude, a letter preserved in the New Testament, calls words ...

The find came from the Pyatnitsky excavation, an urban settlement that developed in the eleventh century, according to the original NovSU announcement. The front shows a warrior with spear and shield, ...

Scholars in Shaanxi believe that a royal tomb adjacent to the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport may be the enduring resting place of Empress Dowager Huayang, the woman who influenced the succession ...

More evidence emerges that Tutankhamun's tomb might stretch beyond the painted walls that mark its end. New research has ...

A Norman fortress long thought to have vanished has been found hiding inside University College Dublin’s Roebuck Castle. New ...

The argument can be traced back to the Roman author Vitruvius, who talked about Greek architecture several centuries after ...

Excavation work at Tell el-Abqain in Egypt’s Beheira Governorate has revealed the residential heart of a New Kingdom frontier fortress. In addition to planned streets and rooms built with mud bricks, ...

Now, if you open a Protestant Bible to Genesis 6, humanity multiplies and the “Sons of God” take wives. The LORD then caps ...

The Norse mythology we think you know may never have existed as a single story. It survives today as a confident, cinematic arc, but no Viking Age author left behind the volume that tells it from ...