Animals have played roles that go far beyond their presence in the natural world since the times of ancient civilisations to ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

Boys become warriors in an ancient initiation ceremony in Kenya’s Maasai community. This rite of passage is known as “Enkipaata.” It has been declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO but has ...

Imagine a world where lines drawn centuries ago still shape the fate of forests, rivers, and wild creatures today. It might ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Angela Morton, 42, said she had been waking up multiple times a night for years until she came across the technique ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

AppaNail is an ancient antifungal herbal remedy formulated as a dietary supplement to support healthy nails and feet. It ...

A construction project at San Pedro High School in Los Angeles revealed nearly 9-million-year-old sea creature fossils buried ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

One of the largest crocodilians that ever lived preyed on dinosaurs. New research has found the fearsome Deinosuchus had a ...

If you've ever wondered how farming spread far and wide, our research on past human societies offers one explanation: contact ...