Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, ...

Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

OpenAI faces scrutiny after suicides linked to ChatGPT; advocates warn bots shouldn’t mimic therapists without safeguards.

In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...

She’s the subject of the most-recited prayer in the world, but Mary also might be one of the least-known women in history, biblical scholar James D. Tabor argues in his latest book, “ The Lost Mary: ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery in Turkey, uncovering a lost land bridge that could significantly alter our understanding of human migration and European history. This remarkable ...

A massive comet explosion that rocked Louisiana nearly 13,000 years ago has provided new evidence supporting one of archaeology's most controversial theories. The discovery of a 984-foot-long ...

The prehistoric peopling of Europe has long been documented as occurring in waves from the western edge of Eurasia.

Just over 500 years ago, on 3 August 1492, Christopher Columbus, the admiral from Genoa underwritten by Ferdinand II and Isabella I of Spain, set off on the first of 4 trips across the Atlantic. He ...

Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia, provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and ...

Lost has one of the strangest and confusing timelines that has ever been televised. What started as a survival show about a few plane crash survivors being stranded on an odd and peculiar island soon ...

I read George Eliot’s “Middlemarch,” sometimes hailed as the greatest British novel, in a rain forest in western Indonesia. I was there as a graduate student, spending my days slogging through mud and ...