“That is a moment that I will take with me to my grave,” says Tamara Lanier, describing the first time she saw the image of her ancestor ... always asking how art can be spun from survival.

And experts believe its destruction may have featured in the Bible, which describes how Hezekiah – one of Jesus' ancestors – smashed idolatrous places of worship. This was one such place ...

Sadly, Ebert's story doesn't have a happy ending. Seyfried's ancestor was shot and killed while leaving his home one day — a tragedy that was news to Seyfried. "It’s weird. I don't know him ...

The world’s largest religions like Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and others, influence history, culture, and daily life.

Hinduism condones physical and mental suffering as a retributive form of karma. Even in Japan, worship could once be an ordeal. We read of annual fire-walking rituals as tests of spiritual ...

Before Marie Kondo stormed into the global consciousness, Hideko Yamashita taught Japan the art of creating tidier spaces. “In many ways, having to face our things is like having to face ...

The mini dino, which was about the size of a chicken, was likely a distant ancestor of the largest creatures to ever walk Earth. Its discovery has shocked paleontologists, who previously assumed ...

A study of 780,000-year-old food remains has shed light on the diets of prehistoric human hunter-gatherers. The research has revealed that hominins—a group containing modern humans plus our ...

“Pictures of Belonging” traces the careers of three female artists who flourished despite the U.S. government’s imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. By Aruna D’Souza One ...

The U.S. Geological Survey put the quake’s preliminary magnitude at 6.8. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it had an intensity of lower 5 on the Japanese scale of 0 to 7. The quake began at ...

A strong earthquake rattled southern Japan on Monday, the United States Geological Survey is reporting. The notable quake registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.9, the USGS said and was recorded ...