In Death and the King’s Horseman, Wole Soyinka celebrates the Yorùbá people’s belief about human existence, the continuity of life ...

The Aga Khan IV, who died last week at the age of 88, was considered one of the wealthiest (and one of the best-connected) ...

Greek mythology is prominent in art dating from antiquity through to the renaissance and even in contemporary artwork. During ...

As people celebrate the beginning of the new Chinese lunar year, the Year of the Snake, what do snakes symbolize in mythology?

A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the Museum of Modern Art.

Art has always drawn inspiration from experience, be it the physical world perceived by the senses or more abstract aspects, ...

This alludes to the fact that the pharaoh had succeeded his predecessor after his death. The identity of the king associated with a falcon—in other words, with the god Horus (who is often linked ...

The Instructions of Amenemhat, also known as The Teaching of King Amenemhat I to His Son Senusret, is a literary work from ...

The death of a pet? Tell us about one such loss ... By The Learning Network Choose three to five works of art or culture to group in some way, then tell us why we should — or shouldn’t ...

But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men ...

Tiffany Johnson is a death doula. But the Oak Park resident insists that her work as an end-of-life educator isn’t as dire as ...

Many Charlotte-area residents are familiar with some of the more notable figures in local Black history, people like Harvey Gantt, the first Black student accepted to enroll at Clemson University who ...