The findings have national significance

Amid the museum’s 2 million works of art lie numerous mathematical curiosities

As urbanisation creeps closer towards the desert, some fear that traditional culture is being left behind.

In caves and rock walls of the southern Utah desert, pictographs have been painted, added to the backs of clamshell-shaped sandstone enclosures. Many are noted to have acoustic properties, meaning these ancient, Indigenous images seem to be correlate ...

The physics of dandelion dispersal could inspire windborne microdrones.

Tracing the connection between a ubiquitous paper product and the women’s liberation moment

A language dispute has erupted in Afghanistan after the BBC labeled the Facebook page of its local service BBC Dari, a name rejected by Afghan Persian speakers who prefer their language to be known as Farsi.

The village was described in written sources from the Middle Ages but archaeologists have only just found the site.

The Library of Congress has acquired and digitized the 16th-century Codex Quetzalecatzin, a rare Mesoamerican record of early European contact.

Boston Public Library's Leventhal Map Center is exhibiting maps of volcanoes, catacombs, mines, subways, sewage systems, and other underground cartography.

Leprosy found in red squirrels is also found in pre-Norman bones in Suffolk and Scandinavia.

CNN investigation exposes inappropriate use of drug called Nuedexta in nursing homes

A hoard of Roman bronze artefacts discovered in Gloucestershire includes a unique statue, never found before in Britain.

2,000-year-old ancient toys from the Hellenistic Period have been discovered inside tombs belonging to children in the ancient seaport city of Parion

The charred remains of 2,500-year-old honeycombs, as well as other beekeeping artifacts, have been discovered in an Etruscan workshop in northern Italy.

A look at a questionable tradition, from Marco Pierre White to Sébastien Bras

Kent’s Dog Collar Museum is a tiny – but telling – look at how people have treated, and sometimes spoiled, their pets over the centuries.

Entire city was planned on a carefully thought-through grid system.

Los Angeles is a beacon for modern architecture and an ideal place to explore the work of innovative 20th-century home architects. Here's where to go.

Artist Spencer Merolla's "Coal Comforts" is an pop-up bakery serving treats made from coal ash to encourage dialogue on climate change and pollution.