On Sept. 27, 1822, French philologist Jean-François Champollion announced that he had deciphered ancient Egyptian ...

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Scientists believe they’ve decoded the mysterious symbols of Teotihuacan, revealing a potential ancient ancestor of Nahuatl.

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Mount Ida on Crete, known to locals as Psiloritis, is the location where, according to Greek mythology, Zeus was born.

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When the U.S. Highway System was established in 1926, Tennessee’s highways became part of the national grid, linking local ...

In this webinar Hugh will share his research on the thousands of giant skeletons that have been found in North America and look at the phenomenon based upon the written evidence in the academic record ...

Historian Alexander Avina joins WIRED to answers the internet's burning questions about the modern history of Latin America.

Iraq's Embassy in Washington celebrated the recovery of a rare, 4,500-year-old Ibex statue. The return highlights the ongoing ...

Racist “culture” explanations for African underdevelopment are falseGeography, climate, and trade shaped societies more than ...

Michigan State University's women's golf team has players from the U.S., Spain, Colombia, Germany and Canada. It's a group ...