The writer and scholar Robert Macfarlane has spent much of his life climbing up mountains and fishing on rivers, and his ...

Throughout human history, our understanding of the past has been reset countless times based on what we think we know ...

He’s written books on mountains and ancient walkways. He’s been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. His new book is titled Is a River Alive?

Humanity Accepts the Idea of Infinity but Struggles to Conceive of a World Without a Beginning. It is commonly asserted that an atheist is someone who has rejected belief in the e ...

Storytelling has been a medium of joy and entertainment since the inception of human history. The art of storytelling has ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a peculiar ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC ...

Sifting through the tan dirt of northern Iraq, archaeologists looked at the remnants of an ancient empire’s capital city.

Archaeologists from Heidelberg University have made a discovery in Iraq, unearthing fragments of a monumental bas-relief ...

The body’s exceptional state of conservation—with skin, hair and nails still intact—is relatively uncommon in the region, ...

Archaeologists have unearthed an ancient stone slab in Iraq depicting an Assyrian emperor from the seventh century BC ...

Long perceived as unsettling, the female genital area has been subjected for millennia to more or less invasive acts aimed at ...

Blakeslee is a semi-retired anthropologist from Wichita State University. He’s polite, soft-spoken most of the time, and able ...