Although the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent and sovereign state is a fact of recent history, this country has been ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma education officials have proposed new academic standards for K-12 social studies that would include ...

Archaeologists in the Western Peloponnese have uncovered a monumental temple complex near the coastal village of Samikon, ...

The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments has been sold at an auction for more than $5 million.

Politics had always been front and center in religion and religion front and center in politics from the very earliest days.

The Jigoku-zoshi (“Handscrolls of Buddhist Hell”) is a Japanese scroll from the late 12th century that graphically depicts ...

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the messiah, the ultimate rescuer and savior for mankind who would vanquish evil ...

The First Five Hundred Years,” Paula Fredriksen explores how a localized sect became a universal Roman church.

Yet here sits a thriving abbey with its youthful monks, drawing pilgrims while its Benedictines pray the ancient Latin of the ...

The winter solstice ushers in the astronomical winter in the Northern Hemisphere. Meanwhile, the Southern Hemisphere will ...

One of the things I love about the Christmas season is the music. The ancient music is, of course, powerful. Time-tested ...

The scholar Elaine Pagels discusses her research about ancient accounts suggesting that Jesus’ father might have been a Roman ...