In 1930, German archaeologists uncovered the lower half of a massive statue, estimating that it likely originally stood some 23 feet tall. Now, U.S. and Egyptian archaeologists have announced the ...
The search for a place to build a shelter in Manhattan resurfaced New York’s often overlooked history of slavery.
It took Democrats until the spring and summer of 2024 to get serious about unwinding the excesses of the opening phase of Joe ...
Ancient Greek inventions included remarkable automata and the Antikythera Mechanism, but many of their engineers' innovations ...
"smoked mummies" were found in Southeast Asia, rewriting the origins of mummification and revealing a cultural tradition.
An international conference at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts is coming to grips with the oldest mystery in ...
The questions of how humankind came to be, and whether we are alone in the universe, have captured imaginations for millennia ...
Today the pyramids at Giza seem at home in their sandy surroundings, but, when they were first completed, they would have ...
Other rare elements are transforming medicine, too. Gadolinium is used in over a third of all MRI scans. As a contrast agent, ...