Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

Ancient DNA is turning human prehistory into something startlingly intimate. Instead of a clean handoff from one species to another, the last 50,000 years look more like a long, tangled story of ...

Alexandria on the Tigris reemerges as archaeologists map a forgotten port city that once powered ancient global trade.

To the Inca people of what’s now South America, the total lunar eclipse indicated that a jaguar had gobbled up the moon. They ...

On a bright morning in Hawaii Kai, you pull into a gas station. The Koolau cliffs glow. Trade­winds stir the palms. You slide ...

Deep inside a handful of caves, scientists are pulling genetic secrets out of bones, teeth and even the surrounding dirt, and ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city with as much culture off the silver screen as on it.

Replicated steppe mammals at the Nihewan Site Museum. The discovery of the world's earliest steppe mammoth remains at the ...

In the 1860s, white settlers flocked to what would become Marysvale, where the Deer Trail Mine is now located, with high hopes to strike gold, silver, and copper. By the 1930s, though, most of the ...

There is a phrase currently colonizing the digital subconscious, migrating from the niche corners of cultural theory into the ...

For the first time in over two decades, a Kazakh president has visited Islamabad, and he’s calling Pakistan a “reliable and ...

The Kerala Kumbh Mela, held months before crucial assembly polls, saw visible endorsement from the state’s BJP and the RSS, ...