A 3-year-old girl on a family walk picked up an interesting-looking pebble that turned out to be a 3,800-year-old amulet. The Canaanite scarab amulet, which dates to the Middle Bronze Age, was ...

Elevate your backyard with a water feature you can build all by yourself. An attractive, low-maintenance water feature makes ...

If you have potholes and grass in your gravel driveway, restore it by going over the surface with a box scraper, then add ...

The end of winter and the beginning of spring always seem to be accompanied by winds that blow for days and weeks on end. When winter is as dry as this one has been, ...

The Everglades is a unique ecosystem unlike any in the world. We ruined it. Getting it back is expensive, tedious and sometimes volatile.

A Sensory Journey, an exhibition at ABC Stone, was based on the showcase at the World’s Fair. It features the work of five ...

Archaeologists outside Naples excavated a 1,700-year-old burial ground with dozens of tombs and an inscription linked to a gladiator. Photo from the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and ...

LOUAY ABU KHOUSA/AP Israel began conducting "ground operations" in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday following its latest round of attacks that have killed hundreds of people in the enclave ...

Only when Japan sent a second, bigger shipment of 3,020 trees, all tall and mature, did the trees make it into the ground. On March 27, 1912, Mrs. Taft broke dirt during a private ceremony in West ...

A forum for contemporary philosophers and other thinkers on issues both timely and timeless. The series moderator is Simon Critchley, who teaches philosophy at The New School for Social Research.

Materials needed are a little harder to come by. They include stone, slabs, and clay to mold your modern crib, complete with large glass windows and a balcony to soak up the views. As such ...