Nothing says summer like a scoop of ice cream on a cone. That’s why people flocked to The Custard Cup in Danville Sunday, where the local establishment offered $1 cones to celebrate National Ice Cream ...

The Persian Empire, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, became one of history’s most powerful and influential empires. At its height, it spanned three continents,covering parts of ...

From small family-owned businesses to large-scale operations, western Massachusetts has a wide range of ice cream spots that ...

Despite its vast power and ambition, Rome never succeeded in conquering Persia a rival empire that repeatedly pushed back ...

Nehemiah was the Emperor Cyrus’ cup-bearer and conveyed to Cyrus his distress at the enslavement of the Jewish people by the ...

Saturday night, August 2nd is the Jewish fast day, “9th of Av.” The Fast of Av commemorates the ancient destructions of the ...

Amra acknowledges her life is more comfortable than many in Pakistan—the Parsis are in general an affluent and highly ...

The evolution of the term "barbarian" in ancient Greek thought—from cultural outsider to a symbol of uncivilized otherness—is ...

While they are impossible to measure, emotions such as liking or hatred, admiration or contempt—the quotidian stuff of human ...

The bond of the Jews to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea spans three thousand years and is one of ...