The number of man, 666, symbolized divine harmony, human creation, and cosmic order prior to its Christian reinterpretation.

Have you ever walked into a house and felt an inexplicable sense of comfort, or perhaps a sudden sense of uneasiness? You might be surprised to learn that something as simple as the number of the ...

At one time, poaching was the biggest threat to elephants in Africa. As these majestic creatures were slaughtered by the ...

In an extravaganza of pharaonic imagery with a drone light show depicting ancient gods and pyramids in the sky, Egypt on ...

It took a long time for zero to be recognised as a number at all, let alone one of the most powerful ones – but now it’s ...

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

Worshippers flocked to a famous Ayutthaya hermitage after spotting lottery numbers floating in a sacred basin during a ...

The myth of Pythagoras as a vegan obscures his true aim: harmony, purity, and the soul’s ascent toward the divine order of ...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition on ancient Egypt features nearly 100 pieces from international institutions and focuses on the iconography identifying deities.

It was harder than they expected: “We had to grind these ancient feces into a powder. We couldn’t really break off pieces,” says Capone. They performed the procedure to look for DNA matches, and got ...

The alleyway hits a dead end. So does the next. And the next. Wandering deep into Tunis’ 7th-century medina and its souqs, I ...

Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for millennia by forest and fields before it was made public in 2020. Five years on, ...