No other Indian fruit can match the mango for its historical significance, its sociocultural importance and its almost ...

Across history, ancient civilizations crafted prototypes for many of the modern mechanisms that have become integral to ...

Many of the structures scattered throughout the ancient world were put on must-see lists by Hellenistic travelers, since they ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family, now spoken ...

Murujuga, also known by the modern name Burrup Peninsula, in northwestern Australia, is home to potentially the world’s oldest and most endangered petroglyphs. Some of the more than one million ...

Reading all of them would be “the biggest discovery in the history of humankind, from the ancient world”, says Seales. “Now, we have the technology. ...

These 5 ancient superpowers ruled the world before maps were even a thing.

Today's WorldView How ancient India changed the world. The Indian subcontinent’s connections to the West, especially via the Roman empire, were far richer than once thought.

East Asian Paleolithic voyagers may have used dugout canoes to cross one of the strongest currents in the world.

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who ...

Finally, the leap over to the New World occurred in the early 1600s with the first Dutch settlers who landed in New York City. “That’s when the crustula-ferratelle evolved into waffles and ...