As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

The one-year countdown to the Milan Cortina Olympic Games is on. International Olympics Committee president Thomas Bach has ...

Apollonius is far from the only ancient scholar whose work was saved by the medieval Islamic tradition: “we generally ...

In exactly one year, the Olympic flame will be lit in front of the winter backdrop of Italy’s second biggest city. Feb. 6, ...

Scholars are studying an ancient scroll that has been virtually unrolled 2,000 years after it was burned to a crisp during ...

The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games, which open one year from today, feature the Olympic debuts of one sport and five new ...

Milan Cortina Olympics will take place Feb. 6-22, 2026, in northern Italy, with 116 medal events in 16 sports. It's the ...

To celebrate the one-year countdown to the Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, the Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) is not ...

Watch President Donald Trump’s full speech after signing the executive order barring transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports. Citing fairness under Title IX, the order enforces penalties ...

Researchers have recreated the famous hominin’s running form – and it doesn’t look like she’d have won any marathons ...

Chelsea Handler Reveals She Had Her 'Best One-Night Stand' While in London for the 2012 Olympics: 'Something You Would See in a Movie' ...