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

New discoveries from several archaeological sites in North and South America suggest that ancient people first arrived in the ...

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.

Mesa was founded in 1878 by Mormon pioneers and now is Arizona's third largest city. See how it has grown with these historic photos from the 1900s.

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 ...

The Assad regime cultivated ethnic and religious divides that threaten Syria's future even after the dynasty's fall.