The author of the award-winning classic science fiction novel, the latest read for the New Scientist Book Club, on the ...

F. Scott Fitzgerald saw the dire patterns we are living through today. This is why “The Great Gatsby” still matters, writes ...

Thursday marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby." Author Steve Almond has ...

"The Great Gatsby" was first published 100 years ago today. The big picture: "Gatsby" is the best-known work of St. Paul ...

Brazilian researchers are using laser technology to unearth a lost Portuguese colony and challenge long-held beliefs about human settlement in the Amazon.

Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have uncovered an extraordinary Iron Age discovery called the Melsonby Hoard in North ...

Cuneiform, the oldest identified writing system, defied deciphering – until 1857. What happened then makes a terrific read, ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has traveled — on foot — through 21 countries, in a walk that’s taken eleven years so far. Traveling at a human speed has given him glimpses of things people ...

The West’s Eurocentric version of scientific history omits some of the most important events that shaped modern thinking.

The Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway isn’t just a road – it’s a time machine, an art gallery, a nature preserve, and a history book all rolled into one asphalt ribbon cutting through some of the most ...

The Iron Age began at around 1200 B.C. and ended in 550 B.C., though the university says the objects date back around ... into Europe and even the Roman world." ...

It has a curved construction and about 100 meters have been cleared ... significance for studies of the architectural and social history of the period. Meanwhile, the discovery at the site ...