America is in a period of profound national regression. Where will the country end up? By David French, M. Gessen, Lydia Polgreen and Zeynep Tufekci In a world lurching rightward, Mexico’s ...

Archaeologists uncover an ancient burial site with Egyptian, Greek, and Roman graves at Tell Ruwad Iskandar, Egypt. Credit: Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have uncovered an ancient ...

Like the flickering special effects in the 1960 version of H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine," past ages unspool around us — if we know how to imagine them. It helps to realize earth's most recent ice age ...

For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ancient people who shaped history and created the world’s largest language family ...

used to be called “Potamos,” which means “river,” but that Copts (descendants of ancient Egyptians who are now mostly Christians that are associated with the Coptic Church) called it Badamos.