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

A radical initiative for its time, the Metre Convention ultimately birthed a system of measurement that would transcend ...

Easter-egg decorating is an ancient tradition with deep roots extending at least into the medieval period of European history ...

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

Zhúlóng is the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen. It formed 1 billion years after Big Bang, yet has a calm structure like ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

This period, around 3200 BC, marks the emergence of Iran’s self-sovereignty, making it not only one of the world’s oldest inhabited regions but also the earliest known state to form a recognizable ...

One small man broke one big record. Marcelino “Mashico” Abad Tolentino — who is just 4’3″ tall — is believed to be the world’s oldest person after he turned 125 on Saturday ...

This spot is widely celebrated as the world's oldest restaurant, established in 1725, it has earned it a place in the Guinness Book of Records. However, though the 1725 date is proudly displayed on ...

A man who is just 4ft 3in tall is now believed to be the world’s oldest person after he turned 125. Marcelino Abad Tolentino, from Peru, chalks his long life down to his healthy diet and ...

A story of perseverance leads from the shores of the Mekong River to the founding of the world’s first and only Hmong ...

When Maria Branyas Morera, the world’s oldest living person, died last year aged 117, she drew a frenzy of commentators sifting her lifestyle for some silver bullet that might account for her ...