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Is the vast "Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area" the final resting place of Genghis Khan?
Gods and angels have been replaced with hi-tech extraterrestrials.
John Templeton Foundation
On the menu: stews, cheese, and fermented drinks.
For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.
We don't know what causes Miyake events, but these great surges of energy can help us understand the past — while posing a threat to our future.
Evolutionary pressures drove the formation of tribes who encoded their values in myths and symbols. Was this cooperation cursed?
Left-handed humans were likelier to get stabbed in the heart.
How humans came to feel comfortable among strangers, like those in a café, is an under-explored mystery.
John Templeton Foundation
One hypothesis: "gossip traps."
And her clothing tells an important story, says archeologist Rita Wright.
It’s a lot easier to point out things that are gezellig (adjective) than it is to define gezelligheid (noun) itself.
The lack of friendship is particularly a problem for men. But there are easy ways to make friends.
Science isn't synonymous with technology; it's about a way of thinking.
It wasn't merely an act of brutality; it was a condemnation for the afterlife.
Zombies aren't a modern-day obsession. Throughout history, fear of the undead led to bizarre burial rituals all over the world.
Fortune cookies emerged from one of America’s darkest moments.
Most male mammals have little or nothing to do with their kids. Why is our own species different?
In order to figure out how English might evolve in the future, we have to look at how it has changed in the near and distant past.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys."
Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of "The Immortality Key," unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Researchers discovered something modern humans had never before seen—a flashy Neanderthal horn collection.
A new discovery pushes back the origin of these technologies by about 40,000 years.
Archaeologists turn to other scientific fields to fill in the picture of how victims lived and why they died.
The strange bronze artifact perplexed scholars for more than a century, including how it traveled so far from home.
"I am an anthropologist, and for years, I have spoken to people who have had these experiences."
John Templeton Foundation
If you get married in South Africa, don't be surprised if someone shows up to the ceremony dragging along a smelly goat.
A wide-scale examination of early Neolithic human skeletons reveals the violent history of a supposedly peaceful period.
Could the prevalence of flood myths around the world tell us something about early human migration or even the way our brains work?
Ancient humans crossed the Bering Strait land bridge from Asia into North America. But some of them went back.