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The billionaire’s latest venture into U.S. politics points to cracks in the two-party system—even if it might flop.
A 1.5-mile avenue lined with over 400 live oak trees creates a tunnel of branches draped with Spanish moss. It’s like driving through a scene from a dream or a movie set. The trees were planted in the ...
By most historical accounts, the Roman Emperor Caligula was a nightmare–a sadistic, debaucherous, and unstable despot.
The iconic Los Angeles venue is welcoming visitors back with a new exhibition featuring artworks and artifacts from ancient Greece ...
Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...
Explore a stunning Connecticut Georgian home where classic architecture, elegant details, and timeless design create spaces ...
Wisdom From the 'Philosopher King'—75 Famous Quotes From Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius originally appeared on Parade.
Heraclitus was the ancient Greek philosopher who challenged the world through his beliefs in constant change, unity of ...
Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...
Off the coast of a Greek island sits the Antikythera shipwreck, a 2,000-year-old wreck with a story that inspired an Indiana Jones movie. From its beginnings as an accidental discovery to the recent ...
It wasn’t until the mid-1900s that sunscreens began to look like what we use today. In 1944, Florida pharmacist Benjamin Green began experimenting with cocoa butter and coconut oil, which later became ...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced the oldest and complete DNA set of an ancient Egyptian man, dating to when the ...