The Nile River, a vital artery flowing north for 6,650 km, has served as the cradle of Egyptian civilization for millennia.

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow ...

In a dimly lit office in a corner of the French National Institute for Art History, Sudanese archaeologist Shadia Abdrabo studies a photograph of pottery made in her country around 7,000 B.C. She ...

A Europe-focused study published in the journal Science examined 87 ancient and modern cat genomes and found that the domestic cat, which has the scientific name Felis catus, originated in North ...

In a statement hailing a new “resident-focused fee structure that puts American families first,” the department said as of ...

Two-part The Race for Ancient Egypt in Colour focuses on Egypt in the years between the World Wars. In 1922, Howard Carter’s ...

This is the BBC at its most fundamentally BBC-ish — it is another instalment in its ongoing revival of the 1969 Kenneth Clark ...

The U.S. men's national team take on the best teams from across the globe at next year's World Cup. Here's what to know.

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

All eyes in publishing are turned to the 76th annual National Book Awards being held in Manhattan. Novels by Megha Majumdar and Karen Russell, and a memoir by Yiyun Li are among the finalists ...

The proposal still gives no timeline or guarantee for an independent state, only saying it’s possible after advances in the ...

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is like a living history of the internet, and it just logged its trillionth page last month.