Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

Karen Wigen is Frances and Charles Field Professor in History at Stanford University. Speaking with Srijana Mitra Das at Times Evoke, she discusses th ...

Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

On November 1, 2025, “The Healing Path” has its global premiere on the Phoenix Satellite TV’s omnimedia platform. After a ...

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

Mapmakers of the 19th century sought to render both the natural and political worlds with clarity and beauty.

From looping hallways to echoing stairwells, eerie architecture taps into ancient survival instincts—and exposes how our ...

Often, while watching our favorite shows or movies or even playing an immersive video game, we get completely mesmerized by ...

Plague, leprosy, smallpox and other diseases didn't jump from animals to humans when we thought. Ancient DNA is revealing ...

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

For the past half century, Egyptologists saw the rapid abandonment of Akhetaten as a sign of plague. Now that theory is being challenged.