Remarkably well-preserved remains of a 1,000-year-old individual from a cave in central Mexico provided researchers with an unprecedented glimpse into the ancient human gut microbiome. Now called the ...

There are arguably few ancient thinkers as influential in their domains as Socrates, Aristotle, and Confucius. Emerging from different cultures or epochs in time, these three remarkable teachers ...

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their ...

Our screens make life faster—but at a cost. Handwriting is fading just as evidence mounts that pen-and-paper thinking ...

The building is an eight-story steel-framed structure. It was Missoula’s first “skyscraper” of that sort. In business and ...

Big Spring, Texas / / September 6, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Summary Historical Context: The Old Testament spans thousands ...

In "Born," Lucy Inglis reexamines history through the lens of gender roles, medical authority, and bodily autonomy.

Five hundred meters east of today’s Nile, in the city of ancient Thebes, rises one of Egypt’s greatest and most enduring ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV encouraged international news agencies on Thursday to stand firm as a bulwark against the ...

Discovered in modern-day Turkey at the Karahantepe site, it could be the first-ever carved depiction of a human face.

A breakthrough in nuclear imaging is unlocking coral fossils to reveal 600,000 years of reef and climate evolution.

Between 2008 and 2014, scientists rappelled down cliffs to reach a dozen bearded vulture nests and begin analyzing what was ...