Spring is marked in many faiths and cultures through ritual, holidays, and celebrations. For Jews around the world, March and April bring two significant holidays, reminding us to recognize the hidden ...

As early as the late third century, Egypt observed a 40-day fast to commemorate ... It echoes the 40 days Moses and the prophet Elijah spent on the mountain with God, the 40 days of the Great ...

The team noted that some remains belong to people who had done very little physical activity during their lifetimes while ...

Researchers discovered a royal tomb that is over 3,600 years old in Abydos, Egypt. The entryway of the tomb was decorated with inscriptions dedicated to Isis and Nephthys, goddesses of the afterlife.

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

In an age in which all media is seemingly ephemeral, it can be easy to lose sight of the fact that one of the great pleasures of many movies is watching them several times. Indeed, each time is ...

But what do we truly understand about the cosmos, and what mysteries still lie hidden in the depths of space? From the nature of dark matter and dark energy to the origins of the universe itself ...

A Russian policeman, hidden in the Kremlin’s arsenal, was caught trying to set light to the... The Holy Alliance presented itself as an intimate spiritual union between the souls and consciences of ...