Our readers shared family heirlooms this month, including a watercolor depicting life in India, a great-aunt’s favorite set ...

Chopsticks are estimated to have been invented sometime around 1200 B.C., making them more than 3,000 years old. By 500 A.D., ...

Details of a 120-million-year-old tectonic plate once a quarter the size of the Pacific have ... an island in the Western Philippines, and in the South China Sea, which made sense once connected to ...

Evoking a modern farmhouse or cottage-style kitchen, Barrymore's plate rack is a strategic and aesthetically pleasing way to ...

Miss Manners suggests that you keep the friendship away from overnight visits. Unless, of course, you want to act as hosts ...

The enthusiastic audience tiptoed and craned their neck eagerly in front of an exquisite bronze vessel, hoping to catch a ...

An “exclusive” South Australian number plate first issued in the early-1900s is expected to sell at auction for more than $1 ...

It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind.

As any kid who grew up in the '50s or '60s knows, mothers insisted they eat their liver to get their dose of vitamins A, D, E ...

BRAZIL has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Her massive, snow-white body is watched over ...

At 10 years old, my granddaughter sometimes hurls insults at me. Without giving her the power of knowing she can wound me, ...

A child from a Japanese primary school in southern China died on Thursday morning after being attacked by a man with a knife ...