Early Americans may have spent millennia sharing prehistoric savannas and wetlands with enormous beasts, research shows.

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried ...

E.M. Forster’s motto was “only connect”. But what if the colonised and the coloniser cannot understand each other in any way?

Discovered in central Germany, the 1,800-year-old silver artifact held a tiny scroll, which researchers have now deciphered ...

White Southern myths about slavery, including a story about enslavers' Christmas benevolence, have helped prop up racism.

The discovery of a newly identified species — the oldest saber-toothed animal found and an ancient cousin to mammals — fills ...

Millions of people believe it to be the burial cloth that wrapped the crucified body of Jesus Christ (circa 4 BC-33 AD) but ...

For centuries, scientists have disputed the origins of syphilis. A new study of ancient DNA supports an American origin for ...

Footprints from Kenya's Turkana Basin show that Homo erectus and Paranthropus boisei lived simultaneously 1.5 million years ...

On December 18, 1944, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in the case of Ex parte Endo, which has reverberated ...

Today is the 58th anniversary of the first ascent of 4,892m Mount Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica. Antarctica has ...