LONDON — The British Library expanded its Chinese collection on Nov 21 by adding printed copies of 10 novels originally published online by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land ...

Victims of Muslim rape gangs in the UK also accuse local police of not only helping to traffic the girls to their abusers, ...

Long empty shelves that once transported a million people of Chennai to a billion worlds stand erect in time. The halls that once sang the quiet melody of a declining art now look like empty ...

A new study argues that a 3,000-year-old hymn from the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit shares remarkable musical patterns with sacred texts from ancient India, suggesting the existence of a global ...

The Egyptians believed that hieroglyphs offered magical protection to people in this life and the afterlife, and inscribed the signs on monuments, statues, funerary objects, and papyri. THE PROTECTIVE ...

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s Jan. 28, 2026, general audience given in the Paul VI Hall. The Documents of Vatican Council II. I. Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum. 3. A single sacred deposit.

This is the text from Pope Leo XIV’s Jan. 28, 2026, general audience given in the Paul VI Hall: Dear brothers and sisters, good morning and welcome! Continuing our reading of the Conciliar ...

I think it’s safe to say that we have a crisis of leadership in our country and in many places around the world today. The question then becomes, who gets to lead? Whom do we elect and what are the ...

The Pyramid of Unas may be small in size, but it holds a massive place in Egyptian history. As the first pyramid to include sacred inscriptions—known as the Pyramid Texts—it marked a turning point in ...

Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

Comedian Bill Maher suggested the U.S. Constitution is becoming like the Bible during "Real Time" on Friday, as he argued that "no one actually reads" it. "The Constitution, is it still a real thing ...

"I don't see any way out of this," reads one of the presenter's texts in the two-part docuseries that premieres on Hulu Nov. 10. By Lexi Carson Associate Editor Before her death, Flack stepped down as ...