OpEd: Mayfield's oldest Black church, with a mural by renowned painter Helen LaFrance, reopens four years after deadly tornado.

Is there a greater testament to artistic endeavour than Florence? The Tuscan city positively brims with museums, galleries ...

In a preface to the 1932 Hebrew edition of the painter Leonid Pasternak’s study of Rembrandt, Russian-Jewish poet Hayim Nahman Bialik observed that although the Dutch artist was not Jewish, we “must ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...

Escanaba, Michigan is that rare gem in the Upper Peninsula where Lake Michigan creates the perfect backdrop for life’s unscripted moments.

The oldest human remains ever found in Northern Britain have been identified as a young female three years after being discovered in a Cumbrian cave. Excavated at Heaning Wood Bone Cave in Cumbria's ...

Indigenous groups in present-day Oregon stitched the fragments together using cord made from plant fiber and animal hair.

A stitch in time. Archaeologists have discovered 12,000-year-old animal hide scraps that could be humanity’s oldest known sewn clothing, per a primeval study in the journal Science Advances.

The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

The wild-born West Indian manatee has lived in human care since 1957 and far outlived the species’ typical 30–40 year lifespan ...

Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years. One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) long that could ...

The oldest known wooden tools have been found in an opencast mine in Greece. They are 430,000 years old and were made by an unidentified species of ancient human – perhaps the ancestors of ...