Every parent knows the feeling. Your child is crying and wants to go home, you pick them up to comfort them and move faster, your arms tired…

Archaeologists have recently unearthed an extraordinary piece of ancient jewelry: a 1900-year-old gold ring featuring a holographic image. This remarkable artifact was discovered in the tomb of…

The Aztec Calendar Stone, or Piedra del Sol, was buried a few decades after the conquest beneath what is now Mexico City’s main plaza, or Zócalo. It was…

Very characteristic sights in Hama are the town’s old wooden water wheels, called noria (“wheel of pots”), which line the Orontes River. They have been called the…