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Carved wooden figure from the Swash Channel Wreck, discovered in 1990 just outside the harbor of Poole, England and now being investigated...

Russian photographer Andre Ermolaev is fascinated by the patterns made by water flowing across Iceland's fields of volcanic ash and ic...

Michael Brendan Doughterty on why thousands of men from Europe have gone to fight for ISIS and other jihadist groups in the Middle East: ...

One of Andrew Sullivan's readers wrote in about his recent experience on a jury: A young Hispanic male from a nearby town known for i...

This week I was searching for a particular Civil War sketch of a place where I may do some archaeology and found myself sucked into the wo...

Dave Weigel passes along this charming photograph, which has been making the rounds of conservative Facebook groups. It brings to the for...

Mr. and Mrs. Goldfinch on the sunflowers this afternoon. We often have six of these in the yard at once, but they are very skittish birds ...

Pope Francis responds to a question about the fighting in Iraq: Q. You know that recently the U.S. forces have started bombing the terrori...

In Kashgar, western China, Andrew Jacobs stumbled across an old story that still has great resonance for both Chinese and Uighurs. The Ch...

Dave Weigel has an interesting column in which he asks what the protesters in Ferguson want, and what might come of the whole thing. As t...

Two years ago archaeologists in Kazakhstan uncovered a spectacular Scythian burial they dubbed the Golden Woman. The tomb dates to around...

Physicist Steven Weinberg answered the question like this: For me … it’s part of a larger question, which is ‘Why are things the way they...

A ladle showing Perseus chasing the winged gorgons, c. 510 to 500 BCE, attributed to the Theseus Painter. From the Getty.

I have to say that this is not the graph I would have anticipated. I suppose this proves there is such a thing as a midlife crisis.

I love the Chrysler Building, one of the great masterpieces of the Art Deco style. It was designed by William Van Alen, and construction b...