Once used to keep settlers’ milk and butter cold, Idaho’s Niter Ice Cave offers a look inside an ancient lava tube.

The San Mateo County History Museum is celebrating an expansion that has doubled its size and added a host of new exhibits, ...

In some places, the grass has faded, leaving behind patches of earth. One mound is deformed and no longer has its original ...

A Siberian burial mound from the ancient Scythian culture dating to 2,800 years ago has yielded the oldest-known evidence for ...

Whether you’re eating, smoking or drinking it, cannabis is commonplace; in the U.S., more people use it on a daily or ...

Archaeologists have found the earliest evidence of people consuming cannabis for psychoactive purposes in a tomb dating back ...

This hour, we trace the history of the idea from ancient Rome to the present, and look at what it can tell us about the revolutions of the past.

With these three fresh additions, India's total number of inscriptions in the UNESCO Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Regional Register has risen to six ...

Scholars of the prehistoric and ancient worlds must grapple with the fact that they’re dealing with imperfect evidence: ...

"No one called him Alexander the Great in his lifetime." Edmund Richardson said this on the evening of 4 November, after ...

Escape the cold in Oaxaca, Mexico, with dry-season weather, Monte Albán ruins, seven kinds of mole and mezcal distilleries in ...

God, King, Man won the 2026 Baillie Gifford Prize for nonfiction, becoming the first ancient-history book to take the award.