Articles by Vittoria Traverso

The Hungry Ghost Festival provides them with paper effigies of money, food—and iPhones.

Roman ruins emerge deep beneath the Western Wall.

A solar-powered pyramid, a house with legs, and titanium fortress.

Until his recent death, Vann Molyvann struggled to bring Cambodia's past and present together.

A man in France found a message-in-a-bottle from a student in North Carolina, and everybody loves it.

He died 50 years ago today, but the revolutionary's zeal for the game of kings lives on in Havana.

A cardinal, a bull, a pope, and a monk walk into Yale Divinity School.

Mummified evidence that cancer might not be a disease of the modern world.

A tomb in Myra adds to confusion over relics of the beloved icon.

Programmed tractors, autonomous drones, and the future of farming.

An incident on Malta has locals angry about cliffside art.

A duck-billed hadrosaur joins an exclusive club of extinct state symbols.

The international event's roots go back to a puppeteer who entertained kids during the Nazi occupation.

Kai dang ku might reflect the past and future of toilet training.

Six hundred years in the history of trousers.

From London to Tokyo in just a hair over two weeks.

Visually impaired people in the United States, however, still have a while to wait.

There's concern that the anonymous acts of whimsy are courting a lawsuit.

From hot air to cool breeze.

Is there anything monkeys can't teach us?

Wait, does the restaurant also serve fish?

The ultimate beach read.