In the beginning, there were only myths. For the Greeks, the island of Crete was a distant and strange land and yet the site of some their most important traditions: Zeus was taken there to save him ...

In an unexpected surprise for fans of the God of War franchise, recently leaked footage has surfaced from a canceled co-op ...

India’s history is undeniably ancient, with the Indus Valley Civilization, Vedic period, and later empires forming the ...

One of the biggest volcanic eruptions in the last 10,000 years shook the Greek island of Thera—today known as Santorini. The ...

The man who just took charge of Rome’s top tourist attraction wants to set the record straight: the Colosseum won’t be ...

When David Arsenault takes down a worn, leather-bound 19th-century book from the winding shelves of the Boston Athenaeum, he ...

Fifty-two fossils of gigantic pandas found in China’s Shuanghe Cave, the longest cave in Asia, reveal the species’ evolution.

New radiocarbon analysis of Egyptian artifacts shifts the timing of the Santorini eruption to around 1600 BCE, before Egypt’s ...

Paleontologists have finally solved the mystery behind an elusive “sword dragon” skeleton found on the U.K.’s Jurassic Coast.

For over three decades, the badly crushed and distorted Yunxian 2 skull remained an enigma, its true significance hidden beneath layers of geological damage. The breakthrough came when researchers led ...

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An October nor’easter packing gusty winds and soaking rain continues to bring steady rain and strong gusts to New England, although the worst of this storm is behind us as the system remained stalled ...