Scientists say that the two lost, but extremely important books by Apollonius, the Greek mathematician known to the ancient ...

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A research team is investigating the influence of the Zagros Mountains on the bending of Earth's surface. A team of ...

The U.S. freeze comes as IS tries to take advantage of the vacuum created by the fall of Assad’s government in early December ...

A hmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated ...

While genetic tests can reveal the ancestry of enslaved individuals, strontium analysis can now home in on where they actually grew up.

Six years ago, at the time of the first Trump administration’s Muslim ban and its initial round of vicious anti-immigrant policies, I visited a refugee ...

One summer’s day in 1936, a crowd piled into a Mayfair gallery to hear Salvador Dalí give a lecture at the International Surrealist Exhibition ...

The work was found in a rock shelter located to the south of Paris, France, that features prehistoric engravings ...

The tale of the ancient Greeks in Libya begins in 630 BC with a group of islanders from Thera, Santorini, establishing Cyrene.

The US military carried out airstrikes against ISIS' lead attack planner and other terrorists in Somalia on Saturday, The ...

The expansion of the Roman empire to Greece 2,100 years ago coincided with a rise in lead pollution as a by-product of an ...