With minimal light pollution compared to California’s coastal cities, the stars emerge in staggering numbers, the Milky Way stretching across the darkness like spilled sugar. Amateur astronomers ...

Amol joined 500 million pilgrims from all over the globe for the world’s largest religious festival Kumbh Mela ...

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Mesopotamia, located in the fertile valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was one of the cradles of civilization ...

Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West” examines roots of self-government.

Greece has about 6000 islands, 230 of which are inhabited. Here is a map explaining all of the Greek island groups.

This lies at the heart of Western civilization — the compelling love of the self-evident truths that make a civil order possible. We do not need others to order us — we seek the great integral ...

It's not just the Israeli thing," Maher said about radicalism on the campus. It's that all of Western civilization is suspect." "And, you know, I'm not saying Trump is a guy reading historians ...

Two studies of ancient felines find that cats were likely domesticated in Egypt or other regions in North Africa — and moved into Europe with humans much later than previously believed.

American and European elites set themselves up as bulwarks against the allegedly toxic legacy of Western civilization and even more against the supposedly illiberal instincts of their less enlightened ...

Athens is scrambling to mitigate perilously extreme summer temperatures as it juggles the needs of locals with the millions ...

It was the birthplace of the Bravo and the iconic Pink Lady variety. "A lot of people in Western Australia don't know that fact, but in Manjimup we're really, very, very proud of it," chair of ...