With its historical relics, worn but sturdy wood reading table and hundreds of ancient books lining the walls, it’s easy to imagine friars hard at work in the Guardian Angels Friary Library.

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in ...

Old Police Docket Found in a Thrift Store, Recorded Ancient Crimes of Casper Town The Rescued Treasures West Thrift Store in ...

Evan Kleiman: I feel really lucky to have eaten candied fruit at the highest level from the oldest artisan confectionery in ...

The era in which Strabo lived, the saddle between the first centuries bc and ad, was highly receptive to kolossourgiai. The ...

Unlike the typical papyrus scrolls used by ancient Egyptians, this book had pages that resembled a type of treated metal or stone, bound together with an intricate mechanism. Early analyses ...

This coffee table book, whose title translates to "Love, Grandma" in Tamil, serves as a repository of natural beauty recipes.

Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red planet that likely sculpted the towering formations. More than 15,000 mounds jut skyward from ...

A writer and his daughter wander the ancient city at night ... “Watermark,” published in 1992: 135 pages of vivid, profound, often funny impressionistic musings on the city Brodsky called ...

The Dollar Book Shuffle isn’t just a store – it’s a testament to the enduring power of the written word. In a world of ...

Rabbit Trap’ director Bryn Chainey on the roots of his trippy folkloric fantasy that premiered at Sundance: “A film should be ...

a University of Pennsylvania professor whose 2003 book about Groundhog Day explored the Celtic connection. Yoder concluded the festival has roots in “ancient, undoubtedly prehistoric, weather lore.” ...