For decades, science fiction writers have tried their best to prepare us for eventual contact with aliens. Their efforts are ...

According to a popular legend, in 1787, the Russian general Grigory Potemkin built elaborate but fake villages along the ...

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their ...

The city of Alexandria, Egypt, hosted an emotionally charged cultural event with the opening of the exhibition “Alexander the ...

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The culprit behind the mysterious disappearance of one of the most advanced urban civilizations at the time, contemporaries ...

Prime Video’s Fallout series is officially heading to the Mojave for Season 2, bringing one of the franchise’s most ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists, and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...

Nothing bothers the European elite as much as American conservatives praising the European foundations of their shared, but threatened, Western civilization. Europeans especially resent having their ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...