A show at the Morgan Library & Museum centers on a popular travel compendium of the medieval era, filled with exaggerations ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

The U.S. soldiers had been at the center of a recovery mission in Lithuania for nearly a week after their armored vehicle ...

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant ...

Sequencing the human genome enables scientists to study human biology in a granular fashion and use that information to create treatments for things like cancer. Yet, of the human genomes studied so ...

Each night, throughout Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, families gather, neighbors share food freely and communities come ...

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

In a new cycle of escalating security threats in the eastern arc of the African continent and its adjacent southern regions, the dynamics of local and ...

Archaeologists deconstructed these monumental ancient graves scattered across the desert of eastern Africa and found several ...

Rich with human detail, "Kunene and the King" explores the terrible cost and legacy of South Africa's apartheid.

Early explorers were on guard against the strange and horrifying humanoids that they thought lived just beyond the known ...