Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have discovered a huge tomb belonging to one of ancient Egypt’s earliest pharaohs. But with no mummy left ...

A newly discovered tomb in Egypt’s eastern frontier may belong to one of Ramesses III’s top military commanders ...

Microscopic traces in ancient grinding stones have uncovered forgotten foods prepared 15,000 years ago—offering a rare taste ...

Discovered by Howard Carter in 1919, the Bashiri mummy remains unopened due to its rare, fragile embalming—leaving its ...

Attendees powdered in many hues dance, grin at Navy Pier, ushering in the new season and mending relationships in ancient ...

Attendees powdered in many hues dance, grin at Navy Pier, ushering in the new season and mending relationships in ancient ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, was repatriated to Greece from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of ...

A soroban “allows students to see and manipulate a physical representation of abstract numbers,” according to The Japan ...

The Ionian League, was a confederation of twelve Ionian Greek city-states located along the coast of Asia Minor.

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. Laureen Fredah’s migrant journey began as something of a lark.

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 ...