Standing in the vast ruins of the Baths of Caracalla in Rome, hundreds of gulls circle above. Their haunting cries echo ...

Roman baths were not only technically ingenious and architecturally impressive, they connected people socially from all walks ...

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After long days focused on the facts, our newsroom reads a lot of fiction at home. We asked our NPR colleagues what they've ...

Representatives from churches, frontline responders, regional authorities, and civil society in Southern Africa are ...

New genealogical research traces the Pope’s ancestry back to the 1500s, revealing what Harvard historian Henry Louis Gates Jr ...

It is a rare obscenity when a man of the cloth attempts to rinse the blood off the robes of genocidaires using nothing but ink and vocabulary. But this is precisely what Belgian Catholic priest ...

June 24, 2025 – "All this is bigger than ghazals, of course. Bigger than haiku. I’m saying we have to graduate from pastiche ...

Faced with growing inequality and social strain, the plebeian council increasingly directed its energy toward social relief for ordinary citizens. Though no longer revolutionary, its institutional ...

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we lose our freedom, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Human rights, defined as the basic rights and freedoms inherent to all individuals, have evolved considerably in both scope and application in the modern era. Contemporary societies have increasingly ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...