Evidence of a similar vessel appears on an ancient Greek vase featuring the infamous Homeric character, Odysseus, tied to its ...

Pope Francis, the second-oldest pope in modern history, has died at age 88, leaving behind a legacy of change in the Catholic Church.

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M ore than 10,000 years ago, a group of Indigenous Americans with close genetic ties to the mysterious Clovis people buried a ...

Pope Francis’s gestures of openness toward the gay community have led to a more capacious definition and understanding of ...

Found in Ukraine, the fragments show signs of human manipulation—though researchers still haven't ruled out the possibility ...

Il-Kantaliena ta’ Pietru Caxaru, the oldest known literary text in the Maltese language, has been added to UNESCO’s Memory of ...

Cooking is an essential part of human culture, but people haven't always written down recipes the way we do now.

Hudson's Bay has asked a court to allow it to put the royal charter that launched the company 355 years ago on the auction ...

Feel like you’re constantly shelling out for more and more digital storage? Katie Rosseinsky explores why our data usage is ...

A new documentary details a project to revamp an 1,800-year-old hymn for a modern audience. The Oxyrhynchus Hymn is the oldest surviving Christian hymn with musical notation — and was rewritten by ...

The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang.