Davidson College Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Allison Smith examines the "distant echoes" of the original Olympic Games and how they compare to the modern global competition. The ...

Without systematic documentation, traditional plants’ uses could be lost or excluded from mainstream medical discourse.

According to Nada Salem, “Our research challenges previous assumptions about North African population history and highlights the existence of a deeply rooted and long-isolated genetic lineage.” It is ...

A new study has revealed that two 7,000-year-old mummies found in the Sahara Desert belong to a previously unknown branch of ...

Feb. 6 through March 28 at the ArtCentre of Plano, Plano. artcentreofplano.org. (NEW)“31ST ANNUAL EL CORAZON ART EXHIBITION” ...

These hidden blobs show how much remains unknown about our planet's interior, and how ancient rocks can unlock secrets about ...

The modern house cats seem to be descendants of the wild cat of North Africa and not the initial farmers that kept the grain in villages during the Neolithic period. The change in origin narrative is ...

If the rules of ancient Greece were observed today, drone and missile fire over Ukraine would stop on Friday as guns fall ...

Ancient volcanic rocks reveal how two giant hot regions beneath Africa and the Pacific have shaped Earth's magnetic shield.

Olympic organisers invoke ancient truce to call for suspension of war - The tradition stretches back to ancient Greece ...

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

The US will return three ancient Indian bronze sculptures, illegally removed from temples, to India. The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art conducted provenance research confirming their ...