Explore the Neolithic Age, where farming, animal domestication, pottery, tools, and permanent settlements shaped the first ...

Outside anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians have presented skewed versions of Indigenous culture for generations.

From the Enlightenment to today’s ‘tradwives’, three books look at the tension between production and reproduction ...

As Africa now stands on the threshold of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, it must reclaim that ancient mathematical genius — ...

Ailsa Chang speaks with David Braun, an archeologist, about his team's discovery of a site in Kenya that suggests human ancestors built tools continuously much earlier than previously thought.

Explore 14 American estates where you can tour lavish rooms, detailed architecture, and stories that bring history to life.

Heretic, debater, wife-snatcher, subject of a posthumous cult: Pico della Mirandola certainly had a wild career. In this smart and rangy book, Wilson-Lee, a Cambridge don, paints a glorious portrait ...

A programmable metamaterial has been developed that shatters the limits of old material science. US researchers at the ...

Ancient rock art was meant to be heard as well as seen and now acoustic archaeologists are bringing the sounds of prehistoric ...

About 170 years ago, a large bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried close to a waterhole in the remote Australian ...

In 1958, during the height of the Cold War, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed what was known as the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law. The goal of the legislation was to create an agency ...

Sprawling dreams of revolution took over the big screen this year, and it’s not hard to imagine why. But subtler forms of ...