To be human is to crave light. We rise and sleep according to the rhythms of the sun, and have long associated light with divinity. Focusing on the arts of western Europe, Lumen explores the ways in ...

From an African king to a Chinese princess, meet the fascinating figures whose stories are forever entwined with the Silk ...

The Toledo Museum of Art has opened a show that demonstrates what a modern exhibition dedicated to Africa should look like.

In a remarkable fusion of ancient history and cutting-edge technology, a nearly forgotten chapter of the Gospels has been ...

While weeding his garden, a man in England stumbled across a stone inscribed with a 1,600-year-old message written in a rare ...

From low-budget splatter flicks to studio favorites, horror is a malleable genre capable of revealing the depths of human ...

Leo Durocher would stop at nothing to win. The baseball player-turned-manager was a skilled tactician and famously tough. But he also cheated, intimidated umpires and was violent; he was even ...