After partnering with A24 on her feature directorial debut, Janet Planet, Pulitzer and MacArthur Award-winning playwright ...

An exhibition at the V&A Dundee traces the many things the garden has been: a paradise; a replica of the world; a sanctuary.

Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

The ancient Greeks founded Naples in the first millennium BCE. What legends exist about its origin, and what does archaeology reveal?

From Stone Age astronomy to Viking law and Roman goddesses, cultures across time have honored the longest day of the year ...

Cimon was a statesman and general who died conquering the Persians in Cyprus, but his men abandoned the siege to give him a proper burial.

But what were the baths of ancient Rome actually like back then? And why were the Romans so into public bathing?

“The modern strawberry has about four times as much DNA as the most ancient wild strawberries,” said Vance Whitaker, a ...

An ancient society near the southern shores of Lake Titicaca in modern-day Bolivia was once one of the continent's most ...