As researchers discover overlooked tattoos on mummies from around the world, it's prompting new insights about some of the ...

A new study shows how a medieval text was misread as history, shaping how the Black Death’s spread was understood for ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

Moroccan rocks suggest that what had been thought to be wild, random movements of continents was actually Earth's magnetic ...

A team of international researchers has used AI technology to peel back layers of biblical history and identify likely ...

Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through ...

He focuses on Taylor’s concepts of the “social imaginary,” the “immanent frame,” and the “buffered self,” showing how these ...

Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated across the world with lamps, sweets, and fireworks. But beyond the familiar traditions lie many fascinating facts rooted in ancient texts, regional custom ...

Humans have a long history of altering their environment by producing an extensive lexicon of geometric and pictographic earthworks. One of the first major discoveries of geoglyphic formations was the ...

Los Angeles artist Eamon Ore-Giron with his sprawling panoramic piece, Tomorrow’s Monsoon. James Sullivan. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery The painting, which depicts the transdimensional hybrid ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...