A remarkably preserved 49,000-year-old skeleton shows that Neanderthal kids may have grown slowly, like us

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

Before it was autumn and fall, it was harvest. While the modern names of winter and summer have been around for more than 1,000 years, the names of fall and spring are more recent—and less constant.

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Calder: The Conquest of Time, Jed Perl reveals a hidden side of the artist

It takes more than religious fanaticism or hatred to make someone take innocent lives, but recognise the true roots of ISIS-inspired terror and they can be addressed.

As the rules prohibiting the use of force are crumbling, we risk returning to a world where might is right and war is legal.

Authorities in Flanders called it the "best preserved" find from the era. The bodies of all 23 crew members were found aboard the vessel, in a watery grave on the floor of the North Sea. Belgian authorities announced on Tuesday that they had discovered the remarkably well-preserved wreck of a World War I German submarine, commonly called a U-boat, off the coast of West Flanders.

A common phrase with a long, deceptive history.

How the East German secret police caught a young man who wrote letters to the BBC during the Cold War.

Ignoring or downplaying colonial atrocities is the moral equivalent of Holocaust denial. By Nathan J. Robinson.

Exclusive: one of the greatest conceptual breakthroughs in mathematics has been traced to the Bakhshali manuscript, dating from the 3rd or 4th century

Since 1958, a small department of Germany’s government has sought to bring members of the Third Reich to trial. A handful of prosecutors are still tracking down Nazis, but the world’s biggest cold-case investigation will soon be shut down.

From the Jewish districts of historic cities to small, out-of-the-way towns once known as shtetls, the author finds remnants of the past at every turn.

Devane's grand-niece said, "Just talking to her was like connecting history. She was the last living connection to our great-grandfather.”

The violence that shocked the world in 1994 did not come from nowhere. For years, violent Tutsi rebels, backed by Uganda in full knowledge of the CIA, had been preparing for war. By Helen C. Epstein.

The Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, spread across Europe between 1346 and The Black Death, one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, spread across Europe between 1346 and 1353. It is widely believed that the plague was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis.

It may make you feel better about leaving work early today.

The story sprang up all over the internet after the research was published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology. So were Vikings more progressive than first thought? Let's break it down.

Historical evidence simply does not support such contentions. Indeed, it suggests that they are misguided. So why do they persist? The answers are political. By Peter Harrison.

In “Enraged,” Emily Katz Anhalt shows how the earliest works of Western literature questioned the values of the society that produced it. By Mary Beard.

A quiet side business among typography experts is every kerning nerd's dream job—and a surprisingly high-stakes game.

Britain’s practice of transporting convicts to American colonies was a fearsome punishment, but not for the chronic criminal James Dalton. By Christine Ro.

How the sundae staple went from treatment to just treat

Archaeologists tested three methods the early hominins could have used to get tar from birch bark

Julius Caesar kept a cache of it in the government treasury and the Greeks even put it on their money. It was worth its weight in gold – but no one knows if it still exists.

The long, strange history of Soviet mind control experiments. By Giovanni Vimercati.

America as the harbinger of the Nazis’ race laws. By Oded Heilbronner.

Focusing on core competence and outsourcing the rest has made U.S. companies lean, nimble and productive. It has also left lots of people worse off.

Frank Herbert’s “Dune,” an enduring science fiction classic, owes much of its mythology to “The Sabres of Paradise,” an undeservedly forgotten history. By Will Collins.

The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.

The Industrial Revolution led to centuries of social and economic upheaval. Are economists telling us not to worry about workplace automation because things will be better in a couple hundred years?

The wreck of a four-century-old ship that used to belong to King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden has been uncovered in central Stockholm.

More than 100,000 were dragged into these camps. Many never made it out alive. By Mark Oliver.

Caravaggio was a genius, that's undisputed. He was also a killer and a street gang menace (and a terrible tenant)

Despite many recent discoveries that show Neanderthals were technologically and socially sophisticated, there's still a popular idea that these heavy-browed, pale-skinned early humans were mentally inferior to modern Homo sapiens. Now we have even more corroboration that they were pretty sharp. A fascinating new study reveals that Neanderthals were distilling tar for tool-making 200 thousand years ago—long before evidence of tar-making among Homo sapiens. And an experimental anthropologist has some good hypotheses for how they did it, too.