A single ember, unremarkable in its origin, finds its way onto a rooftop—silent, unnoticed—until it catches the wind. It ...

Nearly 2,000 years ago, a library of papyrus scrolls was incinerated in the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum. Now, for the first time, researchers have unfurled the carbonized remains of one such ...

A reader wrote to me days ago, speaking of suffering as karma, suffering as atonement. And so I wrote, not to argue, not to negate, but to place my thoughts beside theirs, to offer another vantage ...

Archaeologists in Norway have uncovered what might be the oldest known rune stone, pushing back the origins of runic writing ...