A site in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates which contains evidence of the earliest humans to leave Africa, has been named a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The Faya Palaeolandscape, which is around ...

The autobiography of anticolonial luminary Andrée Blouin captures her era’s euphoric highs as well as its tragic denouement.

A recent study dramatically pushes back the date for the emergence of our species, though some researchers call for further evidence ...

The founder of the Mormon Church rocked 19th-century America with his spiritual visions, his belief in polygamy—and even a presidential run.

On Aug. 12, the Trump administration announced a review of the Smithsonian, starting with eight of its most-visited and high-profile museums.

Nandshankar Mehta and his ‘Karan Ghelo’, like India’s history, illustrate that we are all heirs to rambling genealogies.

Charlestown Sarsfields survived a tense and dramatic senior championship relegation semi-final with 0-13 to 0-12 victory over a crestfallen Mayo Gaels who looked to have won a grim battle of wills ...

Former players and assistants explain the impact of legendary Birmingham Brother Rice coach Al Fracassa. Fracassa died Sunday at 92.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A new study appears to have traced the origins of Venice’s famed Lion of St. Mark to the Lower Yangtze River area of China. The statue bears a ...

Sixty years ago today, the Indonesian army seized power and began a campaign of mass murder to annihilate the country’s left. Relatives of the victims are still fighting against a culture of amnesia ...

What did early humans like to eat? The answer, according to a team of archaeologists in Argentina, is extinct megafauna, such as giant sloths and giant armadillos. In a study published in the journal ...