Scientists read ancient DNA from South African hunter gatherers and found a very early human branch that shaped survival ...

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The buried remains of a small child, discovered nearly a century ago in a cave on Israel’s Mount Carmel, are once again at ...

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

A global cultural and heritage destination in northwest Arabia, AlUla adds prestigious title to its growing collection of ...

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The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

About 50,000 years ago, humanity lost one of its last surviving hominin cousins, Homo floresiensis (also known as “the hobbit ...

Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park sits in the northeastern corner of the state near tiny McArthur, offering something increasingly endangered in our Instagram-saturated world: genuine solitude among ...

On an afternoon in late October, I was supposed to meet Laura Alice Watt for coffee in the vicinity of Dyrafjordur, a fjord ...

A reduction in rainfall may have played a sizable role in the extinction of Homo floresiensis, the archaic human species ...