Augustus Tolton was ordained in Rome in 1886. Previously, the only Black Catholic priests in the US had been men who ...

Hinduism gained ground in the region in the early centuries of the Common Era because it provided elites with a fully-fleshed metaphysical package along with literacy.

Thousands of years before the invention of compasses or sails, prehistoric peoples crossed oceans to reach remote lands like ...

Jeff Buckley has posthumously landed his first Billboard Hot 100 entry, thanks to a surge in popularity of his 1994 track ...

Memoirs by the Mughal royalty – specially Babur and Jahangir – are well known. Less known and analysed are the writings of ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

Zahi Hawass recounts his rise in the new documentary The Man With the Hat, gracefully sidestepping the controversies that ...

For thousands of years, one tree species defined the cultural and ecological identity of what is now the American South: the ...

Maulvi Ibrahim Abdullah, during a meeting with Iran’s Cultural Counsellor in Sri Lanka, said: We believe that in today’s world and within the Muslim Ummah, Iran is the only country that has ...

I often visit the historical sites around Hauz Khas and Mehrauli, and almost always stop at the tomb of Jamali and Kamali,” ...

As for the statues long assumed to have been abandoned as they were being transported to the coastline to be displayed in ...

Morocco and Senegal are pledging to stay friends after their national soccer teams clashed in a chaotic final to the Africa ...