Casanova was a cynical seducer, but also studied law, took holy orders, played the violin and carried out Venice’s most ...

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Between parked cars in a suburban street in Athens, workers fix a pump to an ancient stone well that in turn accesses an ...

"(Gutters here) are aluminum ... The snow didn't just pile up on the grass but on the roof, too. Experts believe this could cause damage. However, a lack of snow on the roof can reveal an issue ...

At first whiff, it sounds repulsive: sniff the essence of an ancient corpse. But researchers who indulged their curiosity in the name of science found that well-preserved Egyptian mummies actually ...

With safety and well-being in mind, Warsaw’s measures halved traffic fatalities. And Sri Lanka’s capital is restoring wetlands.

A local government in India is offering a $1 million prize to the first person who cracks the code of an ancient script found in the ruins of one of the world’s earliest civilizations.

The call of the wild overwhelmed me in January. I gave every tree and shrub in our yard a haircut, a rainy season task that ...