Christmas trees—and conifers in general—have made some surprising cameos throughout U.S. history, author Trent Preszler ...

Before its fall from grace, chop suey was a holiday tradition for families who don't celebrate Christmas, even being ...

Here’s a breakdown of the origin of the Christmas Tree and which culture is credited with the Christmas tree traditions we ...

Seventy years ago, Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of a bus, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott. Montgomery, Alabama, and other cities will commemorate the historic act of defiance Monday.

The Derveni Papyrus found in Greece is of immense importance and was registered by UNESCO in 2015 as the oldest handwritten ...

For nearly two millennia, a library entombed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius remained silent. Among its shelves—now carbonized into fragile, inky cylinders—lay a scroll so blackened it appeared ...

A new study shows ink on 2,000-year-old Egyptian papyri fragments contains copper. This means the assumption that carbon was the only basis for ink to write on ancient papyri is now a thing of the ...

The controversial “Gospel of Jesus’s Wife” has been undergoing rigorous forensic testing and academic analysis to determine if the fragment of papyrus is authentic or not. The much-debated gospel, if ...

The papyrus PHerc. 1018. Credit: Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III,” Napoli–Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale A newly deciphered Herculaneum ...

Deep within a particle accelerator, theoretical physicist Giorgio Angelotti is hard at work. He sets a black cylinder on a mount, bolts it down, then runs through some safety checks before retreating ...

This video explores the history of the Papyrus font, created by Chris Costello, and the cultural backlash it has faced over the years. Highlights include its use in the "Avatar" logo and a debate on ...

History has seen many waves of Egyptomania but, until the 19th century, scholars remained baffled by the many repeated symbols and motifs wrapped around every new find, from majestic monuments to ...