Acoustic alchemy transforms visitors’ murmurs into shimmering sounds, suspended weightless in the air, like echoes of a prayer in an ancient language ... is one of the world’s most ...

"In ancient cultures, Egyptian, Akkadian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Indian, Persian, Chinese, and Greek, there existed a concept of the sacred mountain of the world upon which the tree of life was ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

It has offered archaeologists an incomparable opportunity to track down lost vestiges of the Roman world ... graphic designer before retiring last summer to pursue a lifelong fascination with ...

After a pope dies, the Catholic Church chooses its next leader through an ancient electoral process ... any outside influence from the rest of the world. This isolation is so important in the ...

Standards play a simultaneously central and unsung role in our modern world. From the first attempts to unify weights and measures in ancient empires to today's complex web of international protocols ...

According to Catholic belief, Peter was executed by Emperor Nero on Vatican Hill, a pagan burial site outside ancient Rome ... shift once again. The World Christian Database shows that Africa ...

The "Eye of Horus," a depiction of a single stylized eye looking straight ahead, is found throughout ancient Egypt ... allowed them to look out toward the world of the living." ...