Quarantine is a word that has become all too familiar in recent years, but its origins are centuries old. Stemming from the ...

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Made up of the islands of Malta, Gozo, and Comino, the archipelago boasts a remarkable collection of historical sites and a ...

The site sits within sediments that record major environmental upheaval in East Africa during the late Pliocene. Around 3.44 ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

Learn how early hominins crafted the same sharp-edged Oldowan tools through 300,000 years of climate change, revealing one of ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

We've feasted on them, built economies around them and in some places nearly erased them from our coasts. Today, 85% of the ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Modern technology, new excavations and curious amateurs have helped unearth some of the world's greatest treasures in the ...