An international team of researchers has uncovered hidden clues about life in the hills of ancient southwest Samos, Greece.

Amid a particularly dramatic week in American politics, bookended by the seizure of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and an ...

A new study maps locations of Chinese tombs, revealing over 4,000 years of power and wealth in early human societies.

American writers misleadingly interpreted Egypt's past to argue that slavery was a divinely sanctioned institution ...

The discovery, published in the Journal of Virology in November 2025, adds weight to the viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis.

A new study published in Nature Communications reveals that some of Earth’s oldest rocks, dating back 3.7 billion years, ...

The room we are in is locked. It is windowless and lit from above by a fluorescent bulb. In the hallway outside—two stories beneath the city of London—attendants in dark suits patrol silently, giving ...

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A NASA planetary scientist has proposed what may be the first scientifically sound explanation for the mysterious Star of Bethlehem that guided the three wise men to the infant Jesus over two ...

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

More than three millennia ago, one of the world’s oldest city maps was carved into clay — and only recently has it become clear that it matches perfectly with the excavated ruins of the ancient city ...

A 3,500-year-old clay tablet discovered over a century ago in Iraq has been revealed as one of humanity's earliest examples of urban planning. The ancient map of Nippur, etched into a hand-sized ...