Why India's chess prodigies carry an ancient ritual into the world's most cerebral arena, and what it's doing to their game.

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Earth’s story may have hardened into place almost as soon as the Solar System began. That is the striking claim in new ...

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 ...

The Shamash Gate was one of eighteen gates that controlled access to Nineveh, the great capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, situated on the eastern bank of the Tigris River near modern Mosul.

Now, French archaeologist François Desset and his colleagues say they have cracked much of it. If confirmed, their work would ...

Shaped by a melting pot of cultures, Minneapolis and St. Paul have built one of the most compelling dining scenes in the ...

Diodorus Siculus' strange stories blend history and wonder, revealing extraordinary human experiences from the ancient world.

According to ancient Greek texts, this was a land of eternal spring, inhabited by a race of giants who lived for a thousand years without disease or war. They called it Hyperborea, a realm existing ...

Utrecht University has launched Paleolatitude.org, a tool showing how any place on Earth has moved over the past 320 million ...

A genomic analysis of people buried on the border of the ancient Roman Empire show how distinct groups combined after the ...