A nautical map of the Black Sea, made by Venetian cartographer Pietro ... The non-trash spanned a thousand years of history: An early medieval jar wreck, a 19th-century warship, three airplanes ...

Our critic Jason Farago shares what you shouldn’t miss in a city imprinted with seven centuries of cultural history.

Modern HIV medicine is based on a common genetic mutation. Now, researchers have traced where and when the mutation arose -- and how it protected our ancestors from ancient diseases.

The Greek genocide and the Pontic genocide instigated by the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish national movement is a dark ...

Humans have only explored a tiny percentage of the seafloor, so there's a good chance some of the strangest creatures or ...

This is the eightheenth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time ...

There’s something inherently dangerous about traveling alone across the country. America is wide, vast, and in many ways experiencing a constitutional crisis. Throw in the added layers of being female ...

As three young women look out over Terrebonne Parish’s diminishing coastline, now barely above sea level, it’s a stark ...

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden history beneath the waves.

A silver communion cup a cotton plantation owner's wife gave to a church she built for enslaved workers is returned.

Los Angeles’ Griffith Park is a massive, mountainous, wild oasis in the middle of the city’s dense urban sprawl. Its real and cinematic history is pure joy to explore.