The temperature hours ago climbed past 104 degrees, and the taxi’s air-conditioning is struggling to keep up. We are ...

In the poem, Ibn al‑Wardi imagines the plague as a wandering trickster who drifts from one region to another, spreading death ...

Ancient Greek cartographers, from Anaximander to Ptolemy, turned myth and measurement into world maps, shaping latitude and ...

A new interactive map reveals the Roman road network, linking Ancient Greece with the empire and shaping trade, travel, and ...

“These Roman roads—both paved and unpaved—gave structure to massive cultural shifts that affected Western history for the ...

A new study maps 40,000 years of Denisovan and human interbreeding, showing how ancient DNA spread, faded, and shaped ...

Archaeologists have discovered evidence of a now-submerged land bridge along Turkey's Aegean coast that may have served as a crucial pathway for early human migration from Asia to Europe during the ...

Scientists have discovered what's thought to be the oldest known mummies in the world in southeastern Asia dating back up to 12,000 years. Mummification prevents decay by preserving dead bodies. The ...

Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years ago, resulting in the oldest known evidence of human mummification, according to a new ...