Jane Pauley hosts our annual "Eat, Drink & Be Merry" holiday broadcast exploring all things epicurean! Check out our ...
The early writing appears to date to around 2400 B.C.—preceding the previous most bygone examples by roughly 500 years.
Cities are undoubtedly at the core of our civilization, from the earliest traces of urban settlements built over 6,000 years ...
A finger-sized clay cylinder from a tomb in northern Syria appears to be the oldest example of writing using an alphabet ...
A century and a half after Baku became the world's first oil city, President Ilham Aliyev is transforming the swamp of the ...
Minnesota cities and towns spend a lot of money to attract tourists, but all Nimrod has to do is flaunt its name. The name ...
Researchers have discovered evidence of the oldest alphabetic writing in human history. The writing was etched onto clay cylinders discovered during a dig at an ancient Syrian city.
Everett's "James," a daring reworking of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," won the National Book Award for fiction.
The ancient city of Tripolis, Turkey has seen thousands of years of history. First built in the Late Neolithic period, the ...
MESSENGER means the one sent with the message — a forerunner of God's message (The New International Webster's Pocket ...
On Tuesday, four United Nations peacekeepers were injured in southern Lebanon after a rocket hit their base. Another peacekeeping base was also struck by rockets, and a patrol came under fire. The ...
THE Sumerians they were a sedentary population of the ancient world, lived in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) over the ...