In Chunkankadai, Tamil Nadu, pottery is not just a craft — it's heritage, memory, and quiet resistance. Here, every pot is ...

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How did the Greeks explain the fact that their gods no longer interacted much with humans during the historical era?

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Spotting a rare foreigner in the southern Syrian city of Nawa, Khalil approaches with a business proposal: bring him a “very ...

Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, Peru, unexpectedly found something else entirely natural: A 1,000-year-old mummy. The find occurred just 20 inches below the surface, in what was ...

Gijs van Hensbergen, , trans. from the French by Linda Asher. . HarperCollins, $24 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-06-019775-9 Twenty-five years ago, Vernant's grandson begged his grandfather to tell him some ...