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I don't celebrate rapists.” Ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration, progressive Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to say in a video that she wouldn’t be attending ...

Population of ancient Greece, Men weighing merchandise ... the population likely increased. Alexandria, in Egypt, became one of the largest cities in the Mediterranean, with estimates suggesting a ...

Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact Teresa Nowakowski Daily Correspondent The Derveni Papyrus, named for the ...

Cooper Mill, a tavern, event space and market in a historic warehouse on the Old Town Alexandria waterfront in Virginia, has opened after a yearslong, brick-by-brick restoration project.

This 120-year-old lighthouse takes water views to the next level. For the price of an apartment in Sydney, you could buy a derelict Victorian lighthouse in Virginia, USA. The lighthouse is a ...

New discoveries by a UCF researcher and her team at the ancient Mesopotamian site of Kurd Qaburstan, including clay tablets with ancient cuneiform writing, a game board and large structural ...

ALEXANDRIA — A three-story, 92-room Holiday Inn Express and Suites plans to open in Alexandria soon. At its meeting Monday night, the Alexandria City Council called for a public hearing to ...

Here’s how it works. An ancient and enigmatic stone circle in the Middle East may not be a prehistoric astronomical observatory after all, according to a new study of satellite images.

But using ice cores and other ancient data points allows scientists to peer much deeper into the past, and establish that the climate today is likely warmer than it has been in 120,000 years.