There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.

The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

The royal symbol on the newly discovered figurines solves a long-standing mystery by identifying who was buried in the ...

Cornwall has several stone circles, and as many as 800 sit across the United Kingdom, remnants of prehistoric people who ...

Archaeologists in Hungary have uncovered a 1,300-year-old warrior’s tomb containing one of only about 80 known Avar sabers, a ...

What can today's scientists learn about astronomical phenomena from ancient texts?

There were 22 gold objects, in addition to other impressive grave goods, buried with the deceased, indicating they were ...

After theorizing on the fossilized bird’s cause of death, the paleontologists decided on the new species’ name: Chromeornis ...

The elongated skull was likely caused by a genetic condition, but it evidently didn’t get in the way of the individual’s ...

Plant species mentioned in texts from the past 800 years hint the wooded grasslands of western India have been there since ...

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for ...

Earth's atmosphere might have contributed to the origin of life more than previously thought. In a study published in the ...