Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...

The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

It may come as no surprise, therefore, that one of the world’s oldest surviving cookbooks, De Re Coquinaria (On the Topic of Cooking) is ancient Roman.

Lucy Lowell, who survived the deadliest Nazi concentration camp to build a full life in New York City and eventually settle in Miami Beach, is among the last of an important and increasingly rare ...

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Shaina Feinberg’s friendship with Joan Darling, a director and actress, gave her confidence to be both a filmmaker and a ...

The world’s oldest wooden spears were probably made by Neanderthals around 200,000 years ago and used to annihilate entire ...

Chesney was born in 1912 and grew up on a farm in Clifton Hill, Missouri. Chesney and her husband lived in several places ...

Books are fascinating things. Indeed, where would we be today without the written word, right? Unfortunately, many books were ...

Cuneiform tablets from ancient Babylon cover a range of topics, from exorcising ghosts to uncovering the location of Noah’s ...

Perched atop one of the City’s modern towers, The Garden at 120 offers a rare, free-to-enter green space with sweeping views ...

Mark Williams produced a vintage performance to beat world number one Judd Trump and book his place in the final of the World ...