Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

These May nights provide the skywatcher impressive views of galactic clusters unimpeded by the Milky Way, the chance to study exoplanets and the opportunity to refresh one’s perspectives.

For instance, a study at Queen's University Belfast found that right-pawed dogs tend to be more optimistic, while left-pawed dogs are more fearful and distrusting. Studies have also found that dogs ...

Think Karens and Yelp complaints are a relatively new thing? This ancient discovery proves humans have always loved to ...

When the Sumerians transposed ... During most of the time the family lived in the mountains, he was the only student in the local school. This period, he said, “marked the beginning of a ...

“The first time we made it,” Palacios says ... By the beginning of the imperial period, the region around Cádiz was famous for its cetariae, fish-salting factories that dispatched high ...