The BBC has announced the sixth annual Faith & Hope season, an unparalleled commitment to multi-faith religious programming across TV and Radio beginning this month which will run throughout Spring ...

The 1300-year-old recipe for Prince Nagaya sake was discovered beneath the streets of Osaka. Our writer gets a taste of imperial life.

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Revered cultural icons that have withstood the upheavals of history are being hit hard in the war being waged by Israel and ...

As the US- and Israeli-led war in Iran continues into its second week, Arvand Khosravi, an Iranian American born in Paris, considers how we got to this moment.

For the first time, scientists have used DNA preserved in ancient sediments to examine how a major natural disaster affected ...

Christina Haack is in no hurry to say “I do” for the fourth time. The HGTV veteran revealed that she feels no need to hurry down the aisle with boyfriend of more than a year Christopher Larocca.

The relative difficulty of access means that Secret Beach never gets as crowded as some of Oregon’s more famous coastal destinations. Even on busy summer weekends, you’ll likely find yourself sharing ...

An analysis of ancient and modern DNA suggests the extent of convergent evolution in different peoples around the world is even greater than we thought ...

For thousands of years, scientists knew of two tiny marsupials in New Guinea only through fossils and local legend. Researchers had long considered these species extinct. However, a team recently ...

Researchers at McGill University used 2,000-year-old stone jars in Laos to observe long-term ecological processes, enhancing understanding of how strongly tree cover shapes small freshwater ecosystems ...

Neverland Pizzeria in Budapest, Hungary, is selling a limited-edition pie featuring ingredients that would have been available in ancient Rome.