Researchers have uncovered how ancient Mesopotamians linked emotions like happiness and anger to specific body parts.

Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and a bit of the backstory of the shameful pardon of the former Honduran president.

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Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time than many of us learned in school. As archaeologists debate mysterious ...

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...

Our interactive map for Fallout: Fallout 76's Appalachia. All the locations, crafting materials, and NPCs found in the game.

These ruins of the city of Babylon in Iraq date to the Neo-Babylonian Empire (626–539 B.C.). A 22-inch-high basalt stela depicting Babylon’s king Nabonidus (r. 556–539 B.C.) shows him wearing a ...

Counties are colored red or blue when the % expected vote reporting reaches a set threshold. This threshold varies by state and is based on patterns of past vote reporting and expectations about how ...

Since Philadelphia is arranged on a grid system, the mostly one-way roads are easy to navigate. Helpful maps are posted along street corners across the city – watch for the "Walk! Philadelphia" signs ...

Archaeologists return to Nineveh in northern Iraq, one of the ancient world’s grandest imperial capitals Archaeologists didn’t know what to expect when they began searching for a 2,700-year-old ...

The New Yorker’s editors and critics choose this year’s essential reads in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.