Writer Feng Jicai Explains The Chinese Lunar New Year. For many Western readers, the Chinese Spring Festival may appear as little more than red lanterns, fireworks and family gatherings. Yet within Ch ...

The text—the tale of a warrior ruler—may help settle a nearly century-old puzzle about the location of the Temple of ...

After the game, Toby Keith’s song “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” played as the team celebrated in ...

A newly examined Greek inscription uncovered inside Homs’ Great Mosque of al-Nuri is reopening an old argument with big implications: does the mosque sit directly over the long-lost Elagabalus Temple, ...

Hagia Sophia was one of several great churches originally built by Constantine, the first Christian emperor and founder of the city of Constantinople. For almost 1,000 years Hagia Sophia remained the ...