Olympic organisers invoke ancient truce to call for suspension of war - The tradition stretches back to ancient Greece ...

During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...

of his speeches is devoted to harmony, what he calls “a grammar” that underscores, art, architecture and spirituality of all the great religions. He spoke about this harmony in a speech at the UN ...

Olympic organizers invoke an ancient pledge to call for the suspension of all wars - The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics are just one week away and United Nations and Games organizers are urging a ...

When Constantine Costi first heard about the World Porridge Making Championships, he was working in Berlin and took a ...

Its title was “The Europeans.” A few respectful reviews aside, and despite a parallel American edition, the book didn’t have much immediate impact — far less than the work Cartier-Bresson had ...

While the tombs and the shrine were found within the modern city's boundaries, they would have been situated outside the ...

As the horror movie "Sinners" stands poised to sweep the Oscars, we take a look at how and why the vampire genre has long ...

The Founding Fathers lived in a world of kings and emperors. There was no democracy in their time, and nothing even close since ancient Greece. Men like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, well ...

A documentary about the Great Salt Lake won a special jury prize, and a drama about a girl who witnesses a crime won two awards. See the complete list.

Now a ‘wild river national park’, the Vjosa needs more trees to be planted to preserve its fragile ecosystem. And visitors are being asked to help ...