Lalit Mengi [email protected] India had blazed a trail across the world, in the millennium and a half from 250 BC to ...

Under the shadow of a centuries-old castle in Şanlıurfa, in southeastern Turkey, black-spotted golden carp swim in turquoise ...

From First Night Junior in Holyoke to a Roaring '20s party at MGM Springfield, local venues offer diverse options for all ...

For almost 500 years, the Parthian Empire controlled one of the world’s most important cultural and trade routes, stretching ...

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Z: Guilty of being someone for whom every song obsession sticks around far longer than it should. A: Despite my very modern ...

Answer: Great white sharks, but the number of attacks is small. There have been 59 fatal great white shark attacks since — ...

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A mound in Syria now covered by a lake may have been a monument to the war dead of an ancient Mesopotamian settlement based at a site called Tell Banat. The six-story structure was built of lime-rich ...

The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes "monkey trial," an interview with ...

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Located in the Germuş mountains of south-eastern Anatolia, this property presents monumental round-oval and rectangular megalithic structures erected by hunter-gatherers in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic ...