Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound located in Louisiana, continues to puzzle archaeologists and historians.

The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting peasant in Sichuan province stumbled upon a cache of jade relics while ...

In two of the most forbidding landscapes on Earth—the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula and the Nazca Desert of ...

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Cultural Interaction in Egypt Through the Ages” conference unfolds at Ewart Memorial Hall, the storied auditorium on The ...

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language ...

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A visit to Charles Lindbergh’s gravesite recalls parallels with the man who picked up his nativist scepter, Donald Trump ...

European Christmas traditions in countries like France, Italy, and Poland seem downright strange compared to America. These ...

For years, conversations about the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence in the West have been dismissed as fringe, conspiratorial, or Islamophobic.

That it was the Jewish people’s sacred texts—and ethical monotheism itself—that inspired Western civilization is lost on them ...

So, are all Europeans living in sweet, chocolate harmony? Not at all. For example, British chocolate uses more sugar and can ...