We're living in a period where the gap between rich and poor is dramatic, and it's continuing to widen. But inequality is nothing new. In a new study researchers compared house size distributions from ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

Cecrops, Athens’ first king, banned bloody sacrifices and reformed worship with laws, morality, and symbolic offerings.

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

A New York father and NAACP leader is demanding his school district discontinue its new "Spartans" mascot, alleging the ...

As President Donald Trump lights the global economy on fire in his bid to reduce America’s $1.2 trillion annual trade deficit ...

A New York school district is facing a lawsuit from a former teacher and parent who says its new Spartans logo is a symbol of ...

The ancient Greek roots of the cross symbol, its significance in cosmology, religion, and philosophy, long before ...

William King Moss III, a father of two second-graders in the Brentwood Union Free School District on Long Island, filed a ...

Explore the history and meaning behind the Flower of Life, one of the oldest and most powerful geometric symbols found across cultures and time. GOP senators line up with Democrats to oppose ...

Instead of referring to sounds in an essentially arbitrary way, pictures refer to the world. As such, they require no learning and no translation—making emojis akin to the earlist forms of writing.