Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of ...

His colossal, semi-historical work Bibliotheke surveys events from creation myths to his own day and ... of the Phoenician goddess Astarte and the Babylonian Ishtar) and a young Syrian man.

See the iconic Pillars of Creation in this 3D visualization created from James Webb and Hubble Space Telescope data. Credits ...

Before satellites and global positioning systems, ancient civilizations charted their known universe with remarkable ...

Researchers led by a Rutgers University-New Brunswick astrophysicist, who looked deeply into space at a period known as ...

To elide this is to diminish the realities of chattel slavery, which—perhaps—is one reason the most vocal purveyors of the myth are neo-Confederate and white supremacist groups. Bottom line ...

For decades, economics has been about distributing scarce resources: first labor, then knowledge—both could be capitalized and turned into value. But what happens when knowledge is no longer ...

This is a myth. Lightning can, and often does, strike in the same spot repeatedly, especially if it’s a tall, pointy object, like the Empire State Building, which gets struck an average of 23 ...

WASHINGTON − A divided Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the creation of the nation's first religious charter school, a major loss for those advocating a greater role for religion in public life.

Their love story wasn't without its challenges. After eight long years of dating long distance, Ojeh popped the question where their love story first began: Northwestern University. It was a rainy ...

Here’s your all-access explainer — complete with last year’s winners, this year’s bold predictions, and the myths that just refuse to die. So, wait — this whole thing started with tyres?