I started teaching in 1977, and across my nearly 50 years, I noticed that students were always interested in the history of ...

A scholar of early Greek classics explains what the myth of the weapon-carrying god of love, Cupid, a child of the gods of ...

Created around 1503, the painting—which just sold at auction for $3.1 million—depicts the saint after the crucifixion of ...

The three feathers badge has been used by the Welsh Rugby Union since 1881 and is also used by the Prince of Wales, but there's some uncomfortable elements to its history, as we discovered for this ...

Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...