Birthday of Brian Josephson, a Welsh theoretical physicist best known for his pioneering work on superconductivity and ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Neanderthal genes make up 1-2% of the genomes of non-Africans. Scientists analyzed the lengths of regions of Neanderthal DNA in 58 ancient Eurasian genomes of early modern humans ...

The Phoenicians were prolific merchants and explorers who traveled from their home in the Levant across the ancient Near East ...

There’s a lot wrong with Texas, but they do have some excellent high school mascots. I played football against both the ...

The Torah reminds us of a slower tempo. That cadence can enhance our ability to act more long term and proactively, as we ...

Those two closely enmeshed institutions, with their numerous artisans, workers, and, of course, scribes, constituted the apparatus ... with incursions into Egypt, which displeased the Pharaohs. The ...

Thanks to recent analysis, however, researchers believe they have confirmed the first known plague case outside Eurasia: a 3,290-year-old, ancient Egyptian mummy. Y. pestis, also known as the ...

After conquering Phoenicia in 332 BC, Alexander the Great looked onward to Egypt. The city of Alexandria was built at the edge of the Nile Delta and is situated between the Mediterranean Sea to the ...

From the plight of ancient Egyptian scribes to the identities of ancient Maya sacrifices, 2024 brought a rich medley of insights into human history.

Archaeologists have discovered an inscribed silver amulet that one theologian now says may rewrite the history of Christianity north of the Alps mountain range. The inscribed amulet was found ...