As America begins its 250th year, it is fitting to draw attention to the great people and ideas that made it possible. Neither the Declaration of Independence of 1776 nor the Constitution of 1787 ...

The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Pope Leo XIV, 69, is the person to whom lots of people look when they want to come in contact with God. John Prevost, 71, is ...

Forty years after the first effort to extract mummy DNA, researchers have finally generated a full genome sequence from an ...

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

Footprints found in the ancient lakebeds of White Sands may prove that humans lived in North America 23,000 years ago — much earlier than previously believed. A new study using radiocarbon-dated mud ...

Imagine a free Iran – not the Islamic Republic, but the real Iran – joining Israel to lead the region in science, technology, ...

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government…a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always ...

Ancient Eleutherna, located on the foot of Mount Ida on Crete, is revealing archaeological treasures from the dawn of Greek civilization.

The Tiwanaku society thrived around the highest navigable lake in the world – before their mysterious disappearance ...

Latin American Art/Arte Latinoamericano” is the Walters Art Museum’s first permanent exhibition on the area, featuring more ...