Silicon Valley computer history, heritage neighborhoods, museums, parks, restaurants — and a mysterious 160-room mansion ...

Rick Riordan's YA fantasy series The Kane Chronicles deserves its own TV series following the success of Percy Jackson & the ...

In the 19th century, preserved bodies were not only ceremonially unveiled; owning one became a status symbol. “It would be ...

People have worshipped god since the beginning of recorded time. Some have been demigods, or half-human, or semi-divine.

Our modern calendar is the Gregorian calendar, named for Pope Gregory XIII, who reformed it in 1582 to correct some errors in ...

Two were lowly midwives named Shifra and Puah. The third was a princess, the daughter of Ramesses II, the most powerful pharaoh in Egyptian history. Their tales begin with a genocidal decree. Pharaoh, ...

As custodians of ancient wisdom, Egyptian priests explored ritual, science, philosophy, metaphysics, and spirituality unlike ...

Gambling, one of the most common vices in the world, has a long history that dates all the way back to Ancient Greece.

Nyuserre valley temple discovered in Abusir is a monumental complex next to the river that is dedicated to the Sun god, Ra.

Columbia, South Carolina’s “Ra Obelisk” mural has been vandalized with white paint covering the painting of the Egyptian ...

It is well-known that Pythagoras’ ancient Greek equation for right triangles: a2+ b2= c2 , is older than ancient Greece. We also know that in Khufu’s pyramid the height equals the radius of a circle ...

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, in 1935, von Däniken rose to prominence when he published Chariots of the Gods? while working as a hotel manager in Davos. The book posed a provocative question that ...