Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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The wild yet tender moment – which I suppose also makes Marty Supreme the greatest Passover movie ever made (sorry, Charlton ...

Today, Cleopatra isn't a particularly noteworthy film. It looks and plays in the exact way that a classical Hollywood epic from the '60s or further back should. Only cinephiles who love old-school ...

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is celebrating its one-year anniversary today,. Below, we examine how it carried the torch ...

Military history expert and TV presenter Dan Snow reviews the most realistic movie battle scenes of all time. Spanning the ...

The Taj Story” is the latest in a slew of pseudo-historical films to emerge from Bollywood that critics say seek to erase ...

We've collected the history of the nude, from sculpture to oil paintings, and from cam-chat to Snapchat. But more importantly ...