At the beginning of the 13th century, infamous leader Genghis Khan united the Mongols under a common goal — invading the Chinese empire. The land fell to the Mongols in an era that would later be ...

The cocksure, the feeble-minded, and those whose hearts burn with resentment all crave simple narratives. That explains, for instance, why the Marxist "oppressor-oppressed" dichotomy appeals to angry ...

A study led by Professor Dan Lawrence, of Durham University in the UK, found that across 10 millennia, more unequal ...

In a study published in the journal PNAS, researchers compared house size distributions from more than 1,000 sites around the ...

They found some Khamun ground. Archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old town that was possibly erected by King ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Archaeologists in West Texas have made an astonishing discovery which sheds light on the lives of prehistoric humans in ...

Previously, the use of ivory was thought to date back about 120,000 years. But a new study, published in the International ...

Amateur metal detectorists uncovered a stunning collection of silver jewelry, the first evidence of a Dacian settlement in ...

A resident of a southwest German town working on a construction project unearthed a stash of medieval coins minted around ...

The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory ...

Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright decorations and ...