On a trip through the American South, my family stopped at a field of cotton to talk about the enslaved African American history tied to the area. It was a conversation that was easier for the kids to ...

The Greeks pretty much invented the theatre. Thousands of people packed the hillside arena of ancient Athens to watch plays by famous writers like Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus. The Greeks also ...

About 2,500 years ago Greece was one of the most important places in the ancient world. The Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians. The ...

Learn about the ship with 3D views, video animations, life-sized reconstructions and narrative storytelling; view artifacts; and use virtual reality to see the wreck site. “Art and Life in Rembrandt’s ...

In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr., three of the most respected voices in modern family music unite for a very special ...

When it comes to naming storms, you might be saying, "it's all Greek to me." There is a science to naming tropical storms and hurricanes, with six different lists. Learn more about who names ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought ancient languages to life by demonstrating how they sounded. Credit: Public Domain Artificial intelligence (AI) has resurrected ancient languages that were ...

Writing is traditionally regarded as one of the requirements for a society to be considered as a civilization. Various writing systems have been invented by the great civilizations of the world, one ...

Egyptian hieroglyphs are among the oldest writing systems in the world, dating back some 5,200 years. Known in ancient Egyptian as the “language of the gods” and said to have been created by the god ...