A remarkable discovery on Mars has provided one of the clearest timelines yet for the existence of an ancient ocean on the ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

Everyone has an approximate timeline of inventions in their heads. Sunglasses? Probably the 1920s. Vending machines? Sometime ...

Scientists have broadly agreed for years that the thousands of small cone-shaped mounds peppering Mars’ northern lowlands are ...

The history of papad dates back to ancient India, where it was first made as a means of preserving grains and lentils. Ancient texts suggest that these flatbreads were made by grinding lentils into ...

Sometimes the best things in life are the ones that literally stop you in your tracks and make you forget your own name for a ...

For centuries, the Phoenician city-states survived conquest after conquest, bending but never quite breaking beneath the ...

The Mycenaean civilization was the first advanced culture of mainland Greece, shaping the foundations of Greek identity, myth ...

Constantine XI Palaiologos, last Byzantine emperor. Credit: George E. Koronaios /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 4.0 On May 29, 1453, the Ottoman army, led by Mehmed the Conqueror, seized Constantinople, ...