Just as historical buildings accumulate layers of plaster over time, one's identity is shaped by overlapping experiences—some ...

Harvard researchers traced the origins of the vast Indo-European language family to the Caucasus-Lower Volga region, identifying the ancestral population that gave rise to more than 400 languages, in ...

Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests.

Flooding, famine, plagues. Historical documents from diaries to parish registers detail the dramatic impacts of the Little ...

Records from 500 years ago document floods, famine and death in 16th century Transylvania due to wild weather swings during the Little Ice Age.

Droughts, extreme heat and destructive flooding plagued the region in the sixteenth century, historical documents show.

Join archaeologist ‪Darius Arya‬ as he takes you on an immersive journey through the sports and entertainment venues of ancient Rome. From the grandeur of the Circus Maximus to the iconic ...

The Little Ice Age was a period of global cooling that began during around 1300 CE and lasted until about 1850. Average ...

An international research team has gained new insights into the burial rituals of Late Ice Age societies in Central Europe. Signs of human remains from the Maszycka Cave in southern Poland being ...

Nearly three-quarters of U.S. adults (72%) say the COVID-19 pandemic did more to drive the country apart than to bring it together. Fresh data delivered Saturday mornings While Black-owned businesses ...

Books are fascinating things. Indeed, where would we be today without the written word, right? Unfortunately, many books were ...