Mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history are characterized as significant disruptions to life on the planet. There ...

That single vial—an unguentarium recovered from a tomb in ancient Pergamon, once a major medical hub—has now delivered rare, chemical evidence that human feces were used as medicine in the Roman world ...

Parts of ancient Earth may have formed continents and recycled crust through subduction far earlier than previously thought. New research led by scientists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has ...

The time before sunrise is not merely a phase of darkness. Ancient scriptures describe it as a moment when every element of ...

Imagine someone digs you up in 15,000 years and discovers what you had for lunch the day that you died. That’s more or less ...

Ancient Greeks viewed dreams as divine messages, omens or natural phenomena, with interpretations from Homer, Plato, Aristotle and others.

History shows it’s been around for a surprisingly long time—and that we’ve projected our anxieties on its supply before.

Europe's largest conservation charity has chalked up a victory as land around the iconic Cerne Abbas Giant comes into its ...

The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...

Supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, Brown University scholar Michael Satlow will use cutting-edge ...

A preliminary study, which utilizes erosion patterns, suggests that the age of the Great Pyramid is far older than previously ...

A fuller exposure to Latin American history would include, among other things, lessons about neoliberal capitalism, which has long shaped the politics, economies and societies of Latin America. This ...