When a nun in a remote convent claims immaculate conception, the Vatican sends a team of priests to investigate, concerned ...

Even the gods need a backup plan. Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal Monday to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, seizing on a brief break in Greece’s ...

The torch-lighting ceremony next week for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics will be relocated from the ancient stadium in Greece's Olympia to an ...

From the Minoan royal road to the Ridgeway, ancient roads still exist today showing how past civilizations built networks ...

With so many fish in the sea, it can be difficult to pick a spouse - but the Dragonborn won't regret marrying one of Skyrim's ...

The story of Phidippides and Pan, the god of the wild, stands as the most baffling episode of the Ancient Greek world—one of ...

Ancient Persians believed the sky was blue because it reflected a massive sapphire beneath the Earth, giving the stone cosmic symbolism. Kings, priests, and rulers wore sapphires to signal wisdom, ...

Today, olive oil is often hailed as helping to protect against disease, but beliefs in its medicinal or even sacred properties date back millennia.

Over a thousand years before the Inca Empire, a desert culture in Peru built a 13-tower solar observatory that tracked the sun’s rising and setting points with astonishing precision. From two fixed ...