By the Middle Bronze Age, evidence shows that cultures in the region often enjoyed one crop over the other. Widespread ...

Unveiling the mysteries of early civilization, Mesopotamian clay provides valuable insights into the origins of chemistry.

The first ever recorded kiss happened 4,500 years ago, scientists have suggested, after discovering evidence which puts the event 1,000 years earlier than previously thought. A study published in the ...

Dreams have fascinated us since the beginning of recorded history. What does recent neuroscience research tell us about why ...

A negative hand, one of the oldest types of imagery in the world, found in El Castillo. Negative hands were often made using ...

Gog-Magog (Hebrew Bible)and Yajuj-Majuj (Arabic Qur’an) are the long time threats to God’s future Messianic Age. In the 17th ...

The researchers analyzed 483 mammoth remains, mostly molars but also tusks and bones. The oldest samples are 1.1 million years old and belonged to a steppe mammoth — a species that later gave rise to ...

In an article published in National Geographic on September 19, Candida Moss explores the question of whether the Garden of ...

Many people have one-sided or distorted ideas about what is European. The Würzburg professor Dag Nikolaus Hasse demonstrates this in a book that is now also available in English.

Teacher Jeron Velasco came to the U.S. from the Philippines four years ago. Here's what he's learned, what he's teaching and how he's doing it.

In Swiss folklore, the Stollenwurm was a fire-breathing serpent with the face of a cat - a guardian of secrets, treasure, and ...

Around 4,200 and 3,200 years ago, the planet experienced two major climatic events characterized by increased aridity. For ...