A 4,000-year-old burial site in Sudan contains the first evidence of a mysterious funeral ritual that could rewrite parts of ...

Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

Historians have long debated the height of Ancient Greeks, imagining either towering heroes or smaller-than-modern people.

While we share bones, joints, and internal plumbing with the rest of the animal kingdom, one tiny facial feature is uniquely ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

A genome study contradicts long-held conceptions by determining when domestic felines were introduced into Europe from North Africa.

The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

A new book suggests 98 percent of the ideas and knowledge humans learned through history have been lost in time ...

In 1750, Maharaja Marthanda Varma offered Travancore to Lord Padmanabha, creating a kingdom ruled by God, not crown. Beneath ...

Its massive trunk and dense evergreen crown have made it more than a tree; it is a national symbol, a spiritual icon and a reminder of gritty endurance against all odds ...

Tucked away on Massachusetts’ South Shore lies 3,500 acres of woodland serenity that somehow remains off the radar of most Bay Staters—Wompatuck State Park in Hingham, where tranquility isn’t just a ...