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The Book of Genesis is the first book of the Jewish scriptures and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. Genesis takes its name from the opening line in Hebrew – beresit, ("in the beginning") – later translated into Greek as genesis ("origin"...

The Chinvat Bridge is the span between the world of the living and the afterlife in the ancient Persian religion of Zoroastrianism. It is also known as Cinvat Bridge, Cinvad Bridge, and Chinvato Peretav. Every soul, after death, was thought...

The Goliad Massacre (27 March 1836) was the execution of 350-400 Texians, of the garrison of Fort Defiance at Goliad, by the Mexican Army under orders from Mexican President and General Antonio López de Santa Anna (1794-1876). General José...

Hafez of Shiraz (also given as Hafiz, l. 1315-1390) is considered the greatest of the Persian poets and among the most famous and admired writers in world literature. He is among the most often translated poets in the present day and his...

Saint Cuthbert (c. 634 - 20 March 687) was an Anglo-Saxon monk from the Kingdom of Northumbria, who became the bishop of Lindisfarne and one of the most important saints of the medieval church in England. He first became a monk at Melrose...

White marble door of the Hagia Sophia, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Istanbul, 25 February, 2026. The Marble Door (also known as “Gate of Heaven and Hell”) in Hagia Sophia’s south upper gallery marks the threshold between the western...

Temple of Diana, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Mérida, Badajoz, Extremadura, Spain, 01 August 2025. The so-called Temple of Diana is a Roman temple built between the end of the 1st century BCE and the beginning of the 1st century CE...

House of the Virgin Mary, photograph by Juan Ángel Piqueras, Mt. Koressos, Selçuk, İzmir, Turkey, 02 March 2026. The House of the Virgin Mary (Turkish: Meryem Ana Evi) is a Catholic shrine situated on Mount Koressos (Turkish: Bülbüldağı...

Satan, or the Devil, is one of the best-known characters in the Western traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Surprisingly, this entity was a late-comer in the ancient world. Satan, as a totally evil being, is nowhere to be found...

The mythology of any civilization reflects its core values, greatest fears, and highest hopes and so it is with the mythology of ancient Persia. The great heroes like Karsasp, Thraetaona, and Rustum express particularly Persian values but...