Animal mounting is a genuinely long-established art of preserving the original species’ morphology. There is a widespread ...
Historian Lindsay Chervinsky’s new book, “Making the Presidency,” is a profile of John Adams. But it’s also an instructive examination of how the presidency has evolved to become what it is today.
Over the last 80 years we have rediscovered Roman London in the city’s basements and sewers At some point in the 400s, a Saxon wandering in Roman Londinium’s ruins dropped his brooch on top of the ...
If you’re confused by a turn of phrase in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” or a startling metaphor in Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” just ask the book to explain itself, and it will.
In a Polish forest, metal detectorists discovered a Roman spatha sword, dating back over 1,700 years, near Kraków-Częstochowa Upland. The sword, broken in two, might have been used by Vandal warriors ...
Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...
The ancient Greek myths are full of beings that bear a striking resemblance to the vampires of later folklore.
The Six and Twenty Club met Friday, Feb. 14 at the First Christian Church at 2:15 p.m. Bobbi Jo Schlaegel, first vice president, presided over the meeting. Susan Ertel was both hostess and program ...
History of Jews and the Pig,” which just won a Jewish Book Award, explores every aspect of this non-relationship.
Seventh-graders learning about ancient Rome reenacted a portion of history — the Gladiator Games — shocking by today’s ...
New discoveries are breaking old assumptions about Viking women, rewriting history by restoring them to their rightful place ...
Travelers spent an estimated $200 billion staying in non-traditional tourist housing last year, and Precedence Research ...