The liberal arts curriculum in Western post-secondary education — liberal as in “to be free” and art as in “learned skill” — has historically been perhaps the primary means of examining the human ...

They were buried with bows, daggers, and arrows. Now, there's new evidence that these princesses were trained to use them.

Embellished with gold and lapis lazuli, it was found in the Egyptian princess’s tomb at the site of Dahshur, south of Cairo, ...

The worker said that he read the ancient historian “because he makes me think.” As though testing him, Wight asked the ...

Hans Aarsleff, a professor of English and renowned scholar of the history of the study of language, died July 1. He was 100.

A new look at Earth’s deep past is reshaping how scientists understand the planet’s climate, and it carries a quiet warning ...

But unlike other artifacts unearthed at ancient sites, rock art is difficult to link to its creators. Since it often adorns ...

In modern research, we do not shy away from controversial or unconventional research questions. Instead, we subject it to ...

Elite Scythians such as the “Golden Man” inherited their lofty status and shared power during the Iron Age, DNA analysis ...

A banyan tree in Bihar's Munger, estimated to be around 700 years old, has been identified as the oldest accurately dated banyan tree using radiocarbon dating. | India News ...

Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

"We can begin to reconstruct not only how tools were made, but also how technological knowledge moved between regions and how it changed along the way,” said Dr. Gadi Herzlinger ...