Across millennia, continents and cultures, communal bathing has formed a core pillar of daily life. Jessie Stoelwinder lists the traditions worth seeking out for a local immersion.

Repeated flower designs on ancient pottery hint that early village life relied on counting and shared ideas way before math ...

Explore the wonders of ancient civilizations as you embark on a journey through time. Delve into the fascinating histories of ...

Two small clay cylinders, buried for roughly 2,500 years in the ruins of an ancient temple tower, have given archaeologists ...

Architect Jay Reinert with the photo exhibit of his work along the Artwalk in Haddonfield, New Jersey. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about ...

Must-sees include Beryl Cook’s postwar brilliance, Tracey Emin’s new highs, Frida Kahlo’s confessions – plus Google’s HQ and Gaudí’s finally finished fever dream For her centenary year, The Box ...

Looking back on the year, the Korean art and architecture scenes saw a series of landmark moments — from the opening of a new photography museum to the 30th anniversary of the Korean Pavilion at the ...

Tour the "nation's home of science in America." Take a one-hour guided tour of the beautiful National Academy of Sciences building at 2100 C St., NW, Washington, D.C. Dedicated by President Calvin ...

A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic plant imagery in prehistoric art, flowers, shrubs, branches, and trees painted ...

In the early 1970s, a loose-knit group of architects, artists and sociologists working out of Venice Beach began to look at Los Angeles not as a collection of buildings but as a living, breathing ...

Assyrian cylinder seal from the late ninth to seventh centuries B.C.E., made of chalcedony and inscribed with a cultic scene. The image on the right shows the impression the seal would make. Gift of ...