Discovered in a remote Ottoman town in 1884, the Madaba Map is both a masterpiece of Byzantine design and a working map of Jerusalem and the sixth-century Middle East. A detail of the Madaba Map ...

But by the eighth century, Christian churches started to perform weddings, and the ritual became widely accepted as a sacrament. Not all religions view marriage the same; for the Jews, while "no ...

Professor Richardson teaches nineteenth-century American history at both the undergraduate and the graduate level. Her early work focused on the transformation of political ideology from the Civil War ...

It's happening: Your kid is in middle school! Aside from all the changes and transitions that sixth grade often involves, it also means learning new math skills. As concepts get more abstract and ...

Zhu Meng, a researcher at the Palace Museum, says glaze was used to decorate the Ishtar Gate in the city of Babylon in the sixth century BC. "However, glaze in Chinese architecture is not purely for ...