PW spoke with three educators who are committed to integrating reading across the curriculum to elevate literacy and readers ...

The Pyramids of Egypt have been greeting the rising sun for ever 5000 years and the Horemakhet (Great Sphinx), for over 8000 ...

Blake Gopnik, author of 'The Maverick's Museum,' on the contradictory life and legacy of the man behind the world-famous ...

A new study reveals that Egyptian soldiers and Greek mercenaries were present at Megiddo — the biblical "Armageddon" — during ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...

Beyond the handful of memorial libraries, many other ancient Roman public libraries were great cultural centers, including ...

Not only were ancient sculptures multi-colored, they were also scented with perfumes, oils, and flower arrangements.

When a vast library of texts amassed by Mesopotamian King Ashurbanipal was burned to the ground about 2700 years ago, the ...

The mortar, pestle and cutting board in your kitchen are modern versions of manos and metates—ancient cooking implements ...

Tombos lies in the ancient region of Nubia. In around 1400 B.C.E., Egypt conquered the area and established Tombos to “facilitate colonial control,” according to the study. Workers built ...

The cuneiform tablets discovered there and in other Hittite sites represent one of the largest groups of texts from the ancient Near East. They include thousands of sources in Hittite, an ...

A lost 800-year-old Merlin and King Arthur manuscript was found in the 16th-century book and studied using advanced imaging ...