From Hollywood tearjerkers to Chinese tales of passion and loss, melodrama has shaped cinema across cultures. Our trip around the globe explores how filmmakers worldwide have embraced heightened ...

Thousands of nearly identical statues of Sekhmet, the lion-headed goddess of war, have been found across Egypt. But their ...

The remains of Heliopolis—including its only remaining obelisk—are surrounded by the Cairo neighborhood of Matariya. For more than two millennia, Heliopolis was the center of Egyptian ...

Fifty years after it premiered, Lynda Carter’s Wonder Woman remains the definitive blueprint for female power.