(Martín Batallés via AP) Paleontologist Thaís Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at ...

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

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery of a 3rd-century amulet, which may serve as the oldest evidence of ...

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 ...

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

In the Bible, Simon was surnamed “Zealot” to distinguish him from the other Simon, who is nicknamed Peter. He is called a ...

America had lost its nerve. Various international mechanisms had failed. Aleppo had fallen. Meanwhile, more Syrians were ...

A new book by UC Santa Barbara emeritus professor of history Tsuyoshi Hasegawa unpacks the abdication of Russia's Tsar ...