It's not just the quintessential corporate jargon word. "Synergy" goes back hundreds of years, with history in Christianity, ...

Common Sense was a provocation in 1776. Maybe it’s the provocation we need now. This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, ...

The Phaistos Disc has been treated for more than a century as one of archaeology’s great undeciphered “texts.” But a new study argues the mystery may be both simpler and stranger than a lost language.

Larry Ellison, who was raised in a Reform Jewish home by his adoptive Jewish parents, has long been a donor to pro-Israel and ...

Relief of Osiris from the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt. According to Egyptian mythology, Egypt’s first king Osiris sailed around the world spreading knowledge, exactly like the Feathered Serpent ...

Common Sense,” the pamphlet that helped spark the American Revolution, turns 250 this month. But despite its author’s ...

House of David.” In this short phrase, inscribed on a basalt stele discovered in northern Israel in 1993, a long-standing debate among scholars has been reversed. The Tel Dan Stele, dated to the 9th ...

Minnesota boasts towns with surprising names like Climax, named after tobacco, and Nowthen, born from a postal mix-up, each ...