A fast-moving wildfire whipped by gale-force winds burned through the night and into Thursday on Greece’s southern island of ...

Who built Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza? The mystery has haunted scientists for years. Now, ancient inscriptions discovered inside the monument have answered the great question about the mammoth ...

In this episode of Kings and Generals’ Ancient Civilizations series, we explore primary sources to understand how Greeks ...

The late Rep. John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, had introduced H.R. 40 for years. It was named after the “40 acres and a mule’’ the federal government had promised freed slaves.

This plaster cast is as close as we can get to Powers' "original" Greek Slave. It was made in the artist's studio directly from Powers' clay model and records the date "March 12, 1843," when the ...

Greek Slave became the most famous sculpture of the nineteenth century and propelled the artist, Hiram Powers (1805-73), to international stardom. The work was so provocatively lifelike that certain ...