Maimonides dismissed it as a forgery. For him, indulging in any corporeal description of God was unacceptable, because it could be proven through the laws of eternal motion that God has no body. This ...

If it were a national economy, cybercrime would be the third largest in the world, behind only the United States ...

Many Chinchorro remains have fractures to the arms and legs, most likely from slipping on wet rocks. Looking down ...

Terrorism trumps it. If the officer asks me, ‘How many times a day do you pray?’ (I have been asked this) and I refuse to ...

The Nicholas Lanier portrait that I came across so unexpectedly at Frieze Masters doesn’t have the prestige of the ...

Beyond or beneath the theatrics there is a disconcerting sense that something much more serious is going on, that ...

The first person in the West who can be described as a professional tattoo artist was Martin Hildebrandt, a German émigré who ...

The subject is a barred stone window looking onto a patch of blue sky and wispy clouds. Fine strands of cobweb criss-cross ...

It is hard to know how Thomas More might have reacted to the idea that he is now the patron saint of politicians.

Along with their terminology, the Romans had passed down to early medieval Europe the belief that crowds were an important source of validation. Hordes of admirers attested to the holiness of relics.

Asim Qureshi is research director at the advocacy organisation CAGE International.

For a brief time in the 1810s and 1820s, Robert Wedderburn embodied the possibility of common ground between the ...