A look at the different dishes and sweet treats that Muslims around the world savour come Hard Raya Aidilfitri.

Ancient Athens celebrated the Spring Equinox as one of the most important feasts, a celebration of resurrection following ...

Most secularists believe that these religious apocalyptic visions of the future are absurd, although many secularists themselves fervently believe that artificial intelligence, run away genetic ...

Loyal readers might recall “ Vol. 126: What the Bible Says About Burnt Offerings,” published in 2022. That study was prompted ...

Prologue An Orphic hymn says that Kypris, Aphrodite of Cyprus, was the “scheming mother of necessity.” She controlled and ...

Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during the height of its power, the emperor decided to change that and leave a ...

Archaeologist and scholar Giorgio Buccellati’s book At the Origins of Politics describes how Mesopotamia’s urban revolution in the late fourth millennium BC shaped a new mentality. The segmentation ...