Archaic humans living in the Levant around 120,000 years ago were highly selective hunters who carefully targeted prime-aged female wild cattle, rather than engaging in the mass hunting events that ...

Domestic cats first joined European communities around 2,000 years ago, during the age of Roman power, not in deep prehistory ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

A great map library can be a wondrous thing to behold, as James Cheshire’s engaging, deeply satisfying and elegantly designed ...

The Battle of Ipsus reshaped the empire of Alexander the Great, as rival successors clashed in a fight that ended hopes of ...

President Donald Trump’s Truth Social rants may be unhinged, but they have serious consequences: His violent rhetoric has ...

It used to be thought that ancient Mesoamerican monuments were built and used predominantly by powerful leaders and ruling classes. Among the early Maya, however, the site of Aguada Fénix would have ...

The president raged on Truth Social after an alleged ISIS attack on U.S. military troops left three people dead.

For Israel, Kurdistan is part of its security, not a side cause. Kurdish regions in Syria, Iraq and Iran lie across the land ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

Ever wondered what your hometown looked like centuries ago? Thanks to a hidden feature in Google Earth, you can now step back ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.