Evidence from caves in France and Spain shows Neanderthals made symbolic art long before Homo sapiens, reshaping ideas about ...

Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and ...

Russia has been threatening Pokrovsk for more than a year. Instead of the full frontal assaults it used in earlier battles ...

An analysis of feldspar crystals within the oldest magmatic rocks in Australia has provided a unique insight into Earth's ...

DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...

Ice cores from Antarctica reveal "snapshots" from 6 million years of Earth's climatic history. Antarctica is far more than just a bucket-list destination for travelers and a home for penguins. It's a ...

India boasts one of the most ancient civilizations on the planet, with a history dating back to nearly 10,000 years. However, ...

Maps have always both granted power and threatened it, depending on who controls the data, the scale and the narrative.

Scientists found six-million-year-old ice in Antarctica, unlocking the planet’s oldest samples and evidence of dramatic long-term cooling.

Benson Kipruto won the men’s race by three-hundredths of a second, and Hellen Obiri won the women’s race, obliterating the ...

There are many ancient cities, but not all of them have been continuously inhabited ever since the first settlements. Several cities, however, have been populated for millennia, and it seems like they ...

Tokyo is one of those cities that sweeps you off your feet from the moment you arrive. It's a place where tradition meets the modern in a magical way. From centuries-old temples to bustling districts ...