The piece of a clay tablet is marked with Akkadian cuneiform, and its text belongs to the Kadesh Peace Treaty, created by ...
Infrared imaging links the 20th-century Jean Metzinger work to a collector whose pieces were forcibly auctioned under Nazi ...
Hear audio of mouse lemurs and pied babblers (Note: Lemur calls have been slowed down to one-tenth their speed so that scientists can analyze their differences.) ...
New research shows that proboscis bats communicate with each other and echolocate at higher frequencies than scientists ...
The interior of the Menga dolmen features large stone columns that help support the structure. iStock via Spanish National Research Council The Step Pyramid of Djoser, one of Egypt’s oldest stone ...
A trail camera photographed the animal earlier this summer, offering a hopeful sign that the once-polluted urban waterway is recovering after decades of restoration work ...
Between 1924 and 1950, Georgia Tann placed more than 5,000 children—many of them seized from their parents without permission—with wealthy families across the U.S ...
Mounting evidence suggests that regularly cozying up with a book can increase brain and mental health, improve literacy and math skills, and even slow cognitive decline. What's more, fiction seems to ...
Scientists recorded 11 instances of Bubbles successfully snacking this way. They mark some of the first detailed observations ...
From a greater sage-grouse performing a mating display to a tawny frogmouth making a funny face, these photographs capture ...
Researchers found signs of healing on her 700-year-old skull, which suggests that she survived the painful sanction—and may even have gone on to wear a prosthesis ...
Porgy and Bess, which made its New York debut in 1935, is known as the “first great American opera.” But Porgy and Bess has also long been called out for cultural appropriation and stereotyping. Now, ...