The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Mercenary” delves into the truths and misunderstandings about the legendary knight.

New evidence suggests that the battlefield lies in northwestern Turkey. The battle marked the start of the 21-year-old ...

Have you heard of Three Kings Day? It's an annual Hispanic celebration where you eat cake and if you get a baby you have to ...

As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...

Nearly lost in a fire, Zora Neale Hurston's final novel, 'The Life of Herod the Great,' is out more than 60 years after her ...

Scholar and editor, Deborah G. Plant, shares with NPR the process of rescuing Zora Neale Hurston's posthumous novel, "The Life of Herod the Great." ...

Throughout her life and work, Hurston was devoted to completing unfinished narratives. The Life of Herod the Great – a “lost” novel that was published for the first time this month – opens with a ...

The winner of this year's Great British Bake Off has said the experience has been a "dream" that has changed her life. Georgie Grasso, 34, who works as a nurse at Carmarthen, became the hit show's ...

BBC's Strictly Come Dancing returns for a glitzy Christmas special, which is great news for fans who have missed watching the dancefloor every weekend. One of this year's celebrity contestants ...

(John 14:27) Jesus was born into a world troubled by violence, anger, greed and avarice. Before he was 2 years old, Herod the Great, afraid of what risk the Christ child might pose to his power, ...

Plays performed on the Feast of the Holy Innocents (Dec. 28) invariably commemorated the story of King Herod ordering the execution of all male children in Bethlehem under two years old.

After consulting with King Herod of Judea, the men followed the star to Bethlehem, where they found the newborn baby Jesus. While the historicity of this event is difficult to verify, it raises a ...