The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains.

I took EcoFlow’s latest portable power station, the Delta 3 Plus, into the wild (literally). I brought it on a five-day ...

If you’ve ever picked up a shark’s tooth on the beach or seen a prehistoric creature’s skull on display at a natural history museum, you may have noticed one characteristic that all these fossilized ...

A revolutionary RNA mapping method could let us learn from history’s greatest thinkers—starting with Einstein himself.

However, some people have specific cases of exceptional memory, like having an uncanny head for numbers, or an obsessive ...

New research suggests that Homo floresiensis’ short stature is probably the result of a type of dwarfism that occurs in isolated environments.

In moments of emergency, super-concentration, or meditation, people report moments of “time expansion experiences,” or ...

Homo sapiens were thought to have appeared about 600,000 years ago, but two closely related million-year-old skulls suggest that our species might be even more ancient.

Eddie Lipsman could barely contain his metal detector when he passed by a large stone in the Sussita National Park in Israel’s Galilee region. “The device went crazy, I couldn’t believe it,” he said, ...

Researchers recently unearthed a 5,000 years old stone-built monument tomb in Malaga, Spain, that’s comes in at an impressive ...

Although rapamycin eventually became a billion-dollar drug, many of the people instrumental to its discovery—most importantly, the people of Rapa Nui—have been largely forgotten in both a monetary and ...