Long before the Sahara became the world’s largest desert, it was filled with rivers, lakes, and human settlements spread ...

The ancient city of Napata, located in what is now northern Sudan, stood for centuries as a powerful urban and cultural center of the Kingdom of Kush. A new study explains how the city owed its ...

A shroud of mystery remains conceals the knowledge contained within the lost works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle.

Both in schoolbooks and popular imagination, 476 AD stands like a sword stroke: the year Romulus Augustulus, the teenage ...

Spanning centuries, more than 100 historic shipwrecks have been uncovered on the seafloor of the Bay of Gibraltar by ...

A long-overlooked writing system from 5000 years ago is still largely undeciphered, but could mark the moment humans first ...

The University’s Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities recognizes "extraordinary faculty ...

What happens when the world's most prophetically significant river disappears? According to ancient scripture, the answer is terrifying. The Euphrates River is dying. The river that once carved the ...

An online tool lets you trace where any latitude location on Earth was 320 million years ago, revealing how continents drift ...

If ancient wonders, mysterious temples and the steady flow of the Nile River are calling, a cruise on Egypt's most famous ...

Discover the world's best museums for art, science, and history, including the Louvre in Paris and Tokyo's Miraikan. Put ...