Want to go from Venice to the Swiss Alps all without a passport? Discover the movie location map that lets you see the world ...

7,000-year-old DNA from Sahara skeletons reveals a mysterious lineage with no connection to any modern populations.

Exploring the history of racial segregation and discrimination along Oklahoma's iconic highway, and how it shaped the ...

Exploring the history of racial segregation and discrimination along Oklahoma's iconic highway, and how it shaped the ...

Benin City has grown from the historic Kingdom of Benin into a vibrant metropolis with the new Museum of West African Art.

A mega-catalog of 1,231 fossils reveals that Homo was never a rare species in Omo-Turkana and rewrites the history of our ...

Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Two genomes from 7,000 years ago found in the Takarkori rock shelter reveal a lost lineage from North Africa in the Green Sahara.

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Religious maps from the 1300s showing tribal Israel inadvertently became the blueprint for how later mapmakers drew political ...

The domestic cat may be a far more recent arrival to Europe than previously thought, arriving roughly 2000 years ago and not because of the Paleolithic expansion of Near East farmers. The findings ...

Newly discovered fossils prove that a mysterious foot found in Ethiopia belongs to a little-known, recently named ancient human relative who lived alongside the species of the famous Lucy, scientists ...