The latest scroll to emerge from the ash of Vesuvius does not tidy up Stoicism so much as complicate it, by setting a rival ...

Acrobats from a Mexican theater company perform the show titled “Mortal Leap into Xibalba,” which reinterprets a myth from a ...

Centuries before Monopoly, there was Patolli, a high-stakes Mesoamerican game of strategy and luck where players wagered ...

Imagine you're in southeast Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura—population 133. You're in a dusty ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Mesopotamians, the ancient inhabitants of the land between the Euphrates and Tigris ...

Desiccated fecal material from the Cave of the Dead Children. Credit: Johnica Winter Archaeologists don’t always find bones or artifacts. Sometimes, they found something unglamorous that offers a ...

Apple's announcement of iOS 26 felt fresh primarily for one reason — the user interface revamp with Liquid Glass. This meant that, after more than a decade, iPhones were about to look and feel ...