All Mediterranean sperm whales were thought to be part of one cultural group, identifiable by a unique pattern of clicks, or ...

The United States has abandoned the rules and habits of diplomacy in favour of threats, sanctions and violence.

In 1969, archaeologists excavating the Issyk kurgan in southeastern Kazakhstan made a discovery that would become a national ...

Back in April Trump had warned that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again". Instead of being forced into a straitjacket and held somewhere for the criminally insane, ...

The Indo-European family of languages is the largest in the world, with over 150 languages and 3 billion speakers today. The ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

While conflicting narratives are normal, a new agreement between America and Iran lacks critical, durable enforcement mechanisms.

Evanston (US), Jun 16 (The Conversation) Imagine you have a time machine, and you can travel back to any civilisation in history. Maybe you’d go back to ancient Athens, or to a monastery in the Middle ...

All this is to say that no one will ever know who the first trans person was, because there was never just one. There were people we would now call trans in ancient Egypt, Imperial China and among the ...

More than 10,000 cuneiform tablets discovered in the archives of the Bronze Age city of Hattusha in Anatolia contain detailed instructions on how to properly conduct over 100 different festivals ...