Geologists studying some of the planet's oldest volcanic rocks have uncovered new evidence that water was playing a major role in shaping Earth's interior and driving volcanic activity more than 3 ...

The crossing of the Alps undertaken by the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca in 218 B.C. with a force of 40,000 soldiers, 7 ...

Daoism approaches the world not from the perspective that the world is broken or needs to be saved, but rather that it is ...

Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

A reader submitted a suggestion to facilitate water transfer to Arizona. A Western water expert and an infrastructure ...

The Earth is four and a half billion years old, so why they started appearing then is unknown, as is the mechanism to make ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...

Statue of Greek God Zeus. Credit: flickr / Richard Mortel CC BY 2.0 You’d be wrong to think the ancient Greek gods bled the usual, red liquid like you and me, as ichor was the substance that defined ...

The fourth-century residential city in the western desert is one of two major archaeological finds announced by Egypt on ...

Once it was clear that the finding was most likely real, the team took a closer look at the chemistry of the material nearest ...

This weekend, the United States of America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And if you’re like me, that can only mean one thing: You’ve been spending most of ...

Intrigue, whining, and negotiations—all these and more can be found in one of the greatest troves of ancient diplomatic ...