Readings that the podcast’s guests say shaped their thinking.

Celebrating the New Year was a popular custom around the world in ancient times. How was it celebrated in Alexander the Great ...

Today, while most countries continue to honor New Year's Day on January 1st, each country's traditions couldn't be more ...

People have been painting their nails for thousands of years. Both women and men. According to the National Museum of African ...

There’s a 1983 song by English new wave band Re-Flex that keeps popping up in my mind every time I find myself on an Indian club floor. As I watch a homogenous blob of India’s upper-class elite dance ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is more difficult than it seems.

When the West Babylon High School Culture Club was organized this year, one of its initial goals was to raise enough money to give a graduating high school senior a $1,000 scholarship. Within just a ...

We chat with author Dalia al-Dujaili about her migration memoir Babylon, Albion ahead of her appearance at Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair “Nothing happens without movement, nothing survives without ...

The cuneiform tablet with the newly discovered hymn. Credit: Anmar A. Fadhil, Department of Archaeology, University of Baghdad A previously unknown hymn of praise dating to around 1000 BCE was ...

Archaeologists from the Saudi Heritage Commission discovered a remarkable ancient artifact while exploring a fertile archaeological site in northwestern Saudi Arabia, the Commission has announced.

Do you worry about things? Do you wake up in the middle of the night, sweating about what might happen to you, to your family, to the world in general? I do. If you do too, rest assured you're not ...