Notions of linear, inevitable progress and conceptual frames that wall off modernity from what came before now seem more like ...

Hugh Laurie has been tapped as the male lead opposite Amy Poehler in the Peacock comedy series Dig, which reunites Poehler ...

New research suggests that the illustrations may have been based on "Phrygians," a tragedy by the Athenian playwright ...

Decades of conflict and displacement have obliterated the history of one of the world’s oldest human settlements ...

The oldest evidence for human ancestors using fire, dating back to between 1 million and 1.5 million years ago, comes from a ...

Martin Parr, the highly influential British documentary photographer renowned for his colorful, satirical chronicling of ...

During the second millennium B.C., the Hittite kings relied on their control of staple crops to maintain their expanding empire in central Anatolia, where rainfall was unpredictable. At ...

Throughout ancient Egyptian history, taxes were very much part of daily life. Most Egyptians were farmers who owed the state both a period of labor service and a portion of their annual harvest. The ...

One of Britain’s most acclaimed photographers, Martin Parr, died on Saturday at age 73, his foundation said on Sunday.

A detailed look at how a Supreme Court judgment set in motion one of modern India’s most significant religious construction ...