Any event can be marked by cake, perhaps most surprisingly the solemn fast of Good Friday, with its hot cross buns ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

The legendary founder of Bread and Puppet Theater is 90 years old and rising. In December I went to interview Peter Schumann in his home in Glover ...

If she discovers his infidelity, she should confide her sorrow only to God. She must ensure that he lacks for nothing, maintaining an even temper. It was common, and sometimes even recommended, for ...

Tokyo, Nagano is a magnet for skiers and snowboarders, but it also has temples, macaque monkeys and a town Hokusai painted in The air is crisp, the snow deep and undisturbed. The Japanese Alps tower ...

In their pantheon, four gods stand out: Melqart, the god of the sea, the fearful Baal or Moloch ... of cultivating steep and rocky terrain for agriculture. During the Middle Ages, the use of dry stone ...

The repatriation comes after years of legal disputes over the true identity and provenance of the 6-foot-4 artwork, which has ...

Excavations across the ancient city of Perga revealed five new statue finds from as far back as the second century A.D. The ...

A large, bronze statue of Jesus Christ sits in one of Florida’s state parks. But you’ll have to search the seafloor to find ...

Some Chicago aldermen are renewing efforts to reinstall statues, including monuments of Christopher Columbus, that were ...