As Stranger Things Season 5 prepares to close the door on Hawkins (and the Upside Down) for the final time, Volume 2 arrives ...

If you somehow missed the now-routine question of why Israel is in Eurovision but Russia isn’t, the short and utterly ...

If you’ve ever noticed the rising costs and falling standards that seem to be endemic in industries like healthcare, housing, ...

The Assassin’s Creed series began in the Holy Land, where we were introduced to the eternal struggle between the ancient orders of the Templars and Assassins as they waged covert war over the Piece of ...

An Italian archaeological mission has discovered the remains of a sun temple belonging to an ancient Egyptian king near Cairo, the Egyptian antiquities ministry said. The temple of King Nyuserre is ...

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...

What did the ancient Egyptians truly believe awaited them after death? Journey into the sacred rituals of the 19th Dynasty, where every painted coffin, golden shrine, and magical spell was a map to ...

Before the famous pharaohs of Egypt's Golden Age, there was Queen Ahmose-Nefertari. After a century of chaos, she didn't just watch her son, Amenhotep I, rebuild Egypt—she was worshipped as a goddess ...

In the Egyptian city of Esna, a highly decorated entrance hall completed during the mid-third century a.d. is the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum. Some 100 major ...

The merging of the ancient Greek and Egyptian gods Isis/Persephone (left) and Serapis/Hades (right) is an example of religious syncretism. Credit: Heraklion Archaeological Museum / CC0 / Wikimedia ...

Whether home to Egypt’s first pharaohs or not, Thinis became an influential political center of the 8th nome, or province, in Upper Egypt. “From the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2150 B.C.) on, Thinis was a ...

Have you seen stories about 'Chucky,' 'Scream,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer,' 'The Boys,' 'Vanderpump Rules,' or any of 'The Real Housewives' franchises? That's probably a Britta DeVore-curated piece of ...