A new 3-D model of a portable sundial found near Pompeii is helping researchers understand how to operate the "pork clock." ...

The brainchild of Nikos Konstantinidis, it was built in the late 1970s to create a water-based village unlike anything else ...

When clearing undergrowth in their New Orleans yard one day, a married couple discovered something completely unexpected: a ...

Museum denies exits linked to criticism of organisation's long-standing relationship with BP and the involvement of companies ...

The storied history of Vacheron Constantin, which spans 270 years, is a quest driven by passion and perseverance.

The Presidency of the Council of the European Union is the office that sets the agenda and presides over the EU Council, the ...

Today we celebrate the Feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist, writer of the one of the four Gospels writers and the Acts of the Apostles. Born in Antioch, a city in modern-day Turkey, he was believed to ...

The monumental tomb known as the "Royal Kurgan of Kerch," in the Crimea, is a masterpiece of ancient Greek architecture.

Ancient Greeks believed that dead people ended up in a dark underworld called Hades, where three judges determined their ...

The Governorate of AlUla commemorated the International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage, observed annually on October 17.

This is what one night looks like in a $47,000 hotel suite in Paris, an $80,000 villa in the Maldives, and a $4,000 giraffe ...

It started with her childhood love of animals and all the books she read; and continued with meeting Mary & Dr. Louis Leaky and befriending the chimp at Gombe in Tanzania she named David Greybeard.