Israeli archaeologists recently uncovered a Roman sarcophagus in Caesarea, which showing a drinking contest between Dionysus ...

Hands lifted, eyes steady, copper vessels tilted ever so slightly, letting water stream toward the rising light. It’s called Arghya. You’ve seen it. Maybe you’ve done it. Maybe you stopped, assuming ...

A hydraulic riddle from The Magician's Own Book, published in 1857, challenges readers to connect three fountains to three houses without any pipes crossing. The Fountain Puzzle A is a wall, B C D ...

Elsewhere in Europe, tourism overcrowding has vexed Italy’s most popular sites including Venice, Rome, Capri and Verona, ...

After 20 years, the city of Medford says a piece of history is up and running again. It is the Palm Fountain in Alba Park ...

A 6-year-old in New Jersey burned his mouth while drinking from a water fountain at his elementary school, according to his family. By. David Chiu. David Chiu.

NEED TO KNOW. The family of a 6-year-old student at Lincoln Avenue School in New Jersey alleged that their child drank what he thought was cold water from a school fountain, which turned out to be hot ...

White, purple, and yellow. The women’s movement didn’t rely on visual symbols at first, notes historian Einav Rabinovitch-Fox. That changed in the early 20th century, when suffragists in ...

But now, the social birds are lining up, waiting their turns, and drinking straight from water fountains in a Sydney park. And, according to researchers, it’s just the latest evidence of ...

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has approved the design for a brand new symbol for the dirham. First announced in March of 2025, the new currency symbol will eventually be rolled out for ...

Cockatoos in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia, will wait in line for a taste of drinking fountain water – credit Klump et al., Biology Letters, 2025 When scientist Barbara Klump saw some ...