For centuries, fragments of an ancient biblical manuscript existed only as scattered pieces hidden inside the bindings of ...

Just 45 minutes from the French Quarter, Honey Island Swamp is Louisiana's last untouched wetlands — 70,000 protected acres ...

As fewer Americans read the Bible literally, Adam and Eve is increasingly functioning less as a fixed doctrine and more as a ...

When studying ancient history, it's sometimes surprising humanity ever made it to the 20th century. Ancient civilizations were repeatedly hit by disasters, both natural and man-made, the likes of ...

The Indo-European family of languages is the largest in the world, with over 150 languages and 3 billion speakers today. The ...

With up to 20,000 people, it was one of the most important ancient cities in what’s now the United States. A new immersion ...

The agricultural economy was the backbone of wealth in ancient Greece. Food brought people together, whether in smaller groups at a wine-drinking symposium or the entire community in a sacrificial ...

From the ashes of a shattered Assyrian world, a new empire arose under one of antiquity's most formidable rulers. This is the ...

More than 1,000 species of lichen grow in Washington. All of them offer a window into profound biological cooperation.

An international team of cave explorers has shown that cave walls and the prehistoric rock art that adorns them can preserve human DNA for thousands of years.

A breakthrough finally came in 1973. At a mining site in Daye, Hubei province, archaeologists discovered copper axes, the ...

Telling tales from the ancient past of 1997, the comedian Guy Branum is teaching Gen Z what their forefathers knew.