In the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War, Athenians worshipped Eirene. Her cult reflects the political role of religion in Ancient Greece.

What would it mean for rivers, forests, and animals to have legal rights? A global movement is rethinking law’s relationship to nature.

The story of the modern suit begins with tight pants, as men’s legs became markers of class, civility, and sexuality.

The first Japanese delegation to the US captivated crowds and confounded expectations, as the press cast its samurai as “effeminate.”

Before it was a cult classic, the Warner Bros. film began as a 1968 children’s novel by Ted Hughes, though the book and movie tell notably different tales.

To understand current mass burning events better, scientists are turning to the phenomenon known as the Medieval Climate Anomaly.

More than an herb, za’atar shapes, narrates, and anchors identity and political dynamics of the Eastern Mediterranean and Sinai Peninsula.

Welch’s new album continues the band's long-running dialogue with magic, myth, and modern witchcraft.

Takagi Kyōzō makes heavy use of natural imagery to decry the miserable status of the settler colonist population in Japanese-occupied Manchuria.

Behind the transformative star photographs of the 1880s lay a complex collaboration between astronomers and engravers.