Why India's chess prodigies carry an ancient ritual into the world's most cerebral arena, and what it's doing to their game.

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LIVERMORE, CA — What began with quiet intention in 1977 is now an enduring fixture of community, spirituality, and cultural continuity. The Shiva-Vishnu temple in Livermore, home to the Hindu ...

How did an Egyptian scarab make it all the way to the Iberian Peninsula in pre-Roman times?

Tell el-Farama was once the ancient city of Pelusium — and is sometimes identified with a biblical city called “Sin,” ...

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Across continents and millennia, hunter-gatherers and early farmers alike were drawn to build monuments, gather in ceremony, ...

Five thousand years ago, a ruling caste of priest-kings presided over a sacred landscape of passage tombs and stone circles ...