In 1962, archaeologists uncovered an extraordinary artifact in a tomb near Thessaloniki, Greece—the Derveni Papyrus.

The festival held in Varanasi from December 13 to 15, 2024, encouraged audiences to cultivate love, empathy and a sense of calm within their hearts ...

Digenes Akritas is an epic poem from the Byzantine Empire. It follows the exploits of the titular hero in the Byzantine ...

Seamus Heaney’s love-poem to marriage, The Skunk, combines exile and erotica, moving from an American wilderness image ...

Figuring out what to do with the 'Song of Songs' has preoccupied people reading the Bible for centuries. 'Song of Songs' illustrated by Florence Kingsford/Southern Methodist University/Wikimedia ...

Travel to the Jaipur Literature Festival to understand our times, everything from AI and art to ancient wisdom ...

Her powerful voice and choice of emotive songs, many featured in movie soundtracks, earned her the much-deserved title of “Queen of the Power Ballads.” The youngest of 14 children growing up ...

In the days of old, the patachitra artists of Bengal would travel from village to village with their scrolls of paintings and songs of mythology and perform ... rendering many ancient art forms ...

The Song of Songs is the only work in the Bible that focuses exclusively on human-to-human love, not human-to-divine – at least on the surface level of the poem. Ancient Jews and Christians were ...

The 24 tracks range from beloved Chinese art songs like Three Wishes of the Rose by Huang Zi, to classic Chinese poems set to music ... Besides bringing new life to ancient texts, I also wanted ...

Jacobs, the founder of Yetzirah: A Hearth for Jewish Poetry, has written two previously acclaimed collections: Pelvis with ...