In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

Our bond with cats – which has seen them go from hunter to house pet – may be more diverse than with any other animal. And ...

At 92, Katrina Esau fights to preserve N|uu, South Africa’s ancient San language, endangered with her as its last ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Once a dominant power of ancient Africa, the Empire of Aksum ruled trade routes stretching from the Red Sea to India. This film uncovers how its wealth, faith, and influence shaped history before ...

This is the account of the discovery of a skull that has the potential to change what we know about human evolution, and a suppression and cover-up which followed. In 1959, in an area called ...

Malaka, an ancient Phoenician city in today's Spain, thrived as a Mediterranean hub enriched by Greek trade, art, and ...

Author Sam Kean writes about how experimental archaeology engages the senses and offers an intimate look into ancient history ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...