Photographer Mitch Epstein's years-long project highlights the majesty and vulnerability of old growth forests across the US ...

Deep within the ruins, the Library of Ashurbanipal, its 30,000 clay tablets filled with ancient wisdom, was not reduced to ash but hardened by fire. The very flames that sought to erase history ...

Archaeologists in Oman uncovered a 4,000-year-old musical instrument, a pair of copper cymbals, in the ruins of an ancient ...

All ancient texts are read in English translation. Studies Greek history from 800 B.C. (the rise of the city-state) to 323 B.C. (the death of Alexander the Great). Emphasizes the development of ...