An exhibition at the Getty Center shows that the painting's pigment faded over many years, creating the hue that art lovers ...

How the dubious tradition of song-sharking led to a strangely beautiful repository of folk art Luke Savage Author, The Dead ...

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And first-century Celtic druids apparently used mistletoe to make a sacred fertility elixir—one historic use that presaged ...

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Survivors of the whale attack drifted at sea for months, succumbing to starvation, dehydration—and even cannibalism ...

As Forbes ’ Leslie Katz reports, Pope Francis, the current head of the Catholic Church, encouraged the Fabbrica di San Pietro ...

The marble slab, which dates to between 300 and 500 C.E., is the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Commandments.

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Writer Tim Gallagher was the longtime editor-in-chief of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Living Bird magazine.

The president's humble speech, delivered on this day in 1863, was filled with profound reverence for the Union's ideals—and ...