Rare rock hides in plain sight in Colorado Springs, recalling ‘Snowball Earth’

One recent morning near the mouth of a canyon in southwest Colorado Springs, Christine Siddoway placed a few peculiar rocks in a parking lot and a dozen strangers gathered around. “That’s pretty,” one ...
Greek Reporter

Is Celebrating Ancient Greek Legacy White Supremacy? European Scholars Respond

MCC Brussels hosted a discussion on Ancient Greece’s legacy and its critique as Eurocentric or tied to white supremacy.

Will this 75-year-old California man save our world, a new documentary asks

Filmmaker Gabe Polsky was skeptical when he heard about Patrick McCollum. Making his new film ‘The Man Who Saves the World?’ ...

King Tutankhamun’s tomb is headed for collapse — archaeologists want to move a literal mountain to save it

A disaster could strike at any moment, and if the Valley of the Kings is to be preserved, action must be taken before it is ...
The Christian Century

The inverse wisdom of a second-century martyr

Perpetua was a middle- or upper-class Roman woman, living in Carthage, who was martyred in the year 203. She is perhaps the ...

'It's really an extraordinary story,' historian Steven Tuck says of the Romans he tracked who survived the AD 79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius

"I have found two or three rich guys, but I found a couple hundred middle class and even some desperately poor people who ...
J. The Jewish News of Northern California

Arthur Waskow, activist rabbi who brought spirituality to progressive politics, dies at 92

( JTA) — Rabbi Arthur Waskow, an activist and author of more than two dozen books that refracted progressive causes like ...