Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...

The origins of writing in ancient Mesopotamia and beyond may rest on a group of cylindrical seals. A team of archeologists from the University of Bologna in Italy has identified a series of ...

The origins of writing in Mesopotamia lie in the images imprinted by ancient cylinder seals on clay tablets and other ...

A video recently went viral on social media showing giants carrying massive stone blocks to be used in the construction of ...

Running is one of the most popular sports today and a fundamental human movement, raising the question, "When was running ...

The extent to which "civilization" heightens or lessens the likelihood of violent conflict throughout human history has ...

“Europe certainly originated in the Mediterranean Basin, and Greece invented the Olympic Games.” “So, I thought,” he continued, “it would be a good idea to find an ancient Greek artifact, depicting a ...

Did you think Junior's in New York City invented cheesecake? Think again, because this classic dessert goes way back to the ...

Eventually, nine muses were identified, covering every branch of the arts, in the ancient Greek poet Hesiod’s introduction to Theogony, his epic poem about mythical stories and characters (circa ...

An ancient slab of seafloor that was around when ... “Our findings help link the plate tectonic history of the past 250 million years to present-day mantle structures,” Wang says, “providing ...

The navy blue warmup jacket with “USA” stitched in large red letters and the two freshly minted gold medals she carried back from the Paris Olympics clearly identified Jennifer Valente. America’s most ...