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Haruki Murakami's The City And Its Uncertain Walls expands an early novella to diminishing returns

Located near Lake Tahoe, the town of Genoa is home to the oldest bar in Nevada. The entire town, really, is a piece of living history.

The more than 30 tombs include family burials, including of children buried with their parents, in a hillside in Aswan, Egypt.

Newly uncovered frescoes in ancient banquet hall depict Trojan War characters

How the lights on the back of our cars have evolved from oil lamps to altruistic brand signatures in this transcript from the Quartz Obsession podcast, season 7

Before I sat down to play three hours of Dragon's Dogma 2 at a Capcom event last month, I gave myself two broad objecti…

These 15 smart, lightweight midcentury modern lamps give off soft, ambient lighting for your coziest home in 2023.

Amnesia's miracle McGuffin vitae can tell us about how we interact with the world. We live in a society, in other words, and it consumes us in different ways.

On Aug. 3, 1923, by the dim light of a flickering oil lamp in a little farmhouse at Plymouth, Vt., his birthplace, Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office as president.

Researchers think the morbid practice originated with pagan people who settled in the region after the Romans drove out the Jews.

Romans understood that Cupid had a darker, more dangerous side

The small village of Hrakove in Ukraine has only 30 people who have remained in the town compared to the 1,000 residents before Russian troops invaded. On Sept. 9, Russian forces withdrew from Hrakove after a successful counteroffensive by Ukrainian forces.

ROME (AP) — A trunk with its lid left open. A wooden dishware closet, its shelves caved in. Three-legged accent tables topped by decorative bowls. These latest discoveries by archaeologists are enriching knowledge about middle-class lives in Pompeii before Mount Vesuvius' furious eruption buried the ancient Roman city in volcanic debris.

Pompeii's archaeological park announced recent findings of four new rooms. The objects found in the rooms gave a glimpse of life before the eruption.

The installation of a new elevator led to the ancient finds.

Arkane founder's first indie outing is a chaotic soup of colliding systems, and that soup tastes absolutely delicious.

MARIUPOL, Ukraine (AP) — The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling.

Each Valentine's Day, when I see images of the chubby winged god Cupid taking aim with his bow and arrow at his unsuspecting victims, I take refuge in my training as a scholar of early Greek poetry and myth to muse on the strangeness of this image and the nature of love.In Roman culture, Cupid was t...

A Jewish ritual bath known as a mikvah discovered in Ostia Antica is more than 1,500 years old.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.