A New York City firefighter and his family found their own solution to the rising cost of eggs. They got chickens.

When the settlers at Roanoke vanished in 1590, they left behind one piece of evidence: the word "Croatoan" carved into a ...

Linguists, archaeologists, and codebreakers have all tried to crack the Indus script and failed-what makes it such a complex ...

Good morning. Today’s newsletter is a bit of a change of pace: We’re featuring images taken by Globe photographers in January that our photo editors deemed the best of the month.

Depending on the criteria of what classifies a landmass as an island, between a few thousand and one million islands are ...