This is Drama Masks, a Bay Area performing arts column from a born San Franciscan and longtime theatre artist in an N95 mask.

Several important and beautiful discoveries of Mycenaean gold objects have been made by archaeologists, particularly in royal ...

Scientists have for the first time sequenced the most complete and oldest ancient Egyptian genome ever found—unlocking new ...

As the world celebrates World Snorkeling Day today, there’s no better time to dive into India’s most captivating underwater ...

A Himalayan village in Nepal has vanished — emptied by climate change. Samjung, perched in the high-altitude Upper Mustang ...

Emma Raducanu lit up Centre Court on day five of Wimbledon, but could not down world number one Aryna Sabalenka. The former ...

More than 4,000 years ago, Egypt and Mesopotamia stood as two of the most complex societies on the planet. But the new DNA ...

Born in Jerusalem in 1981, the actress moved with her family to the United States at the age of three. Although she caught ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

A seventy-million-dollar renovation beautifully presents the museum’s non-Western art—even if doubts remain about whether all ...

A sought-after textile artist applies a can-do spirit from her artsy childhood in a Swedish commune to creating animal ...

Disney wasn't the only animation studio enjoying a renaissance. Here are the best animated movies of the 1990s ...