Inah Canabarro Lucas of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil is now the world’s oldest person. She is also the 20th oldest person in recorded history.
A soccer-loving nun from Brazil is believed to have become the world’s oldest living person at nearly 117 years old following the recent death of a Japanese woman.
While literacy rates have varied greatly around the world and throughout time, using the written word to share ideas and ...
Tomiko Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on May 23, 1908.
Mort's collection "Music for the Dead and Resurrected" won the 2021 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2022 UNT Rilke Prize. Her other honors include a 2021 Rome Prize in literature and ...
This beer's even older than the one in the back of your fridge. Discover the hymn behind ancient beer brewing so you can ...
“Christopher Nolan’s next film ‘The Odyssey’ is a mythic action epic shot across the world using brand new IMAX film ...
The oldest known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for more than $5 million at an auction on Wednesday.Sotheby's said the 155-pound (52-kilogram) marble slab was acquired by an ...
A rare artefact of biblical history has made headlines, as the oldest-known stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold for a staggering $5 million (€4.8 million) at a Sotheby’s ...
One eye-catching detail within the full piece are the excerpts from ‘Il-Kantilena’, a 15th century poem that’s been deemed the oldest known Maltese poem, cementing itself as a treasured part of ...