Two thousand years ago, when Vesuvius erupted, a longing to make sense of what was happening lured antiquity’s most celebrated encyclopedist to his death. Pliny the Elder’s lifework, the Natural ...

There are so many wines produced throughout Italy - all 20 of the country’s regions are wine-producing ones, so even if the ...

For 14 years, scientists have been growing a tree akin to the Judean balsam — the source of the balm of Gilead — but with no ...

Pliny The Elder once wrote of elephants: "Of all other living creatures, they cannot abide a mouse or a rat." Elephants being ...

The main theory, which went all the way back to Aristotle and ancient Greece, was that birds hibernated during the winter and ...

Nov 16, 2019; Nashville, TN, USA; Kentucky Wildcats fans carry a beer cup chain to the front row during the second half ...

In a world where mis- and dis-function and information are rampant, Christmas ties us to a peaceful “Silent night” past while ...

The Silk Road, that network of trade routes connecting the East to the West and synonymous with the Chinese civilisation, is ...

It has traditionally been accepted by most scholars that the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that destroyed the southern Italian ...

As one United Methodist website puts it, the Blue Christmas celebration has a goal “to make a sacred space for people who are ...

Emerald’s lush green has soothed souls and excited imaginations since antiquity. Its name comes from the ancient Greek word for green, “smaragdus.” Rome’s Pliny the Elder described emerald in his ...