The original statues of the Christus and the apostles were made of plaster, and are currently inside the Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen. The completed marble Christus was placed inside the Church of ...

At the playground, archaeologists found several ancient Roman waste pits, including one with shoe fragments, officials said.

Angela Meady often think about her grandmother and great-grandmother who did not accept barriers to their goals.

Few directors have a visual style as distinctive as Tim Burton. The director has been building Gothically surreal and ...

The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a "stroke of luck for archaeology," ...

Firefighters in New Jersey are stretched even thinner as yet another wildfire burns in bone-dry conditions in the state. At ...

As dusk falls over the City of Light, a new spectacle is illuminating Saint-Sulpice church, a monument whose interiors are even larger than Notre Dame’s. The cavernous walls of the ...

It’s no great surprise, therefore, that we find evidence of that particular, peculiar practice of structured play that we ...

If we ever needed to use our vote, use our voice, to ask whose policies will help the poor, we sure do need to now. As long ...

The discovery of the unmarked mass graves of more than 4,500 people on a housing development site on the edge of Bristol last ...

Whether it's digging up the dead in Madagascar or a striptease in Taiwan, different cultures have unique rituals to mark a person's passing.The pharaohs of ancient Egypt were embalmed, as were several ...