On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

Peter Frankopan, Oxford historian, was first enticed by history in the 1970s, during summer holidays as a child in rural Sweden visiting his maternal grandfather (his paternal line was the ancient ...

By removing centuries of soot, researchers have uncovered the stunning decoration of a sanctuary dedicated to the heavens ...

Horses have been our steadfast companions for many major events. Here's how the domestication of the horse helped them shape ...

Rashid's must-read, millennia-spanning history, cleverly wrought from tablets written in the world's oldest script ...

A new look at fossils from the Cambrian Period around 500 million years ago has revealed that some of the earliest animals spent time on mudflats that were sometimes exposed to the air – a find that c ...

Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

Earth’s core is transforming, which could affect the length of our 24-hour day, Earth’s magnetic field, and more ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

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What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.

Smith said that, should an asteroid be on course to collide with the Earth, we may be forced to rely on some of the world's richest and most powerful people to help us out. “The best people on ...