In Nineveh, the Assyrian capital in modern-day Mosul, Iraq, the king built a magnificent palace known as the North Palace. He ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, ...

Diwali, the festival of lights, celebrates the victory of good over evil. It takes its name from the word deepavali, Sanskrit ...

And in Singapore, in the lead-up to Diwali, a silver chariot with the goddess Sri Drowpathai ... The holiday is also a time to buy new clothes, gold and jewelry, and kitchenware.

"From the very beginning, I made a choice that I was going to become the best I could be, and I was going to make it impossible for them to say no," Kathy Bates tells Newsweek.