The ancient rock-hewn churches of Gheralta Mountains in Tigray showcase extraordinary historical faith, architectural brilliance, and spiritual heritage carved directly into dramatic sandstone cliffs, ...

Colonialism has been a central part of history around the world, differing only in form over time and space. After all, whenever people have moved from one place to another, they ...

The Nile is the world's longest river and runs through northeastern Africa. It flows through eleven countries, including Egypt and Ethiopia, before reaching the Mediterranean Sea. For thousands of ...

Lewis Hamilton is a magnificent racing driver, having won seven world championships — the greatest in the sport’s history.

It is a sunny 75-degree day in mid-January and Michael Govan, the CEO and director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, is walking through a domed underpass at his brand-new building, the ...

Many archaeologists have spent their lives searching for the Ark of the Covenant, but a prophecy in a banned book of the Bible may reveal when it will be found. The Apocalypse of Baruch, a two-part ...

While many people are fixated on the future, there’s still plenty that we don’t know about the past. After all, our planet ...

Ancient Greece has traditionally been periodized into five eras: the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic Age, Classical Age, and Hellenistic Age ...

Learn how advanced scanning and 3D reconstruction revealed the face of the Little Foot fossil and new insights into Australopithecus and early human evolution in Africa.

On either side of the Persian plateau (orange box), genetically identified as a refuge area for the concentration and demographic development of first Homo sapiens who left Africa, Obi-Rakhmat and ...