In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

The arid Southwest has a proven irrigation model, the acequia, for water use that is local, democratic, and resilient to heat ...

From Costa Rica’s lush landscape to New York City's leafy corners and Spain's sunny southern coast, here’s a look at six residences that defy conventional notions of ultra-luxury.

The butchered remains of great bustards found in the graves of people buried 15,000 years ago show that these birds had a ...

If you’re an American looking to spend your golden years somewhere exciting—and where your Social Security check ...

Larger-than-life scenes carved on each of its exterior walls offered ancient worshippers a mere ... b.c.), Khnum was portrayed as fashioning all living things on a potter’s wheel.

Digitising this ancient language largely relies on scanning old books and manuscripts and employing optical character recognition (OCR) technology, which frequently misinterprets the intricate scripts ...

Surprisingly, some of the most effective solutions stem not from cutting-edge labs but from the ancient roots of Indian wisdom: Ayurveda. As someone who has spent decades practicing, researching ...

An analysis of an ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan indicates it belonged to a Denisovan, a type of human that is represented by only a few confirmed fossils. The findings support genetic ...