As a young officer in the French and Indian War, Washington was involved in a devastating friendly fire incident. Military veterans are helping ...

When the team of researchers I work with settles into a new camp, we meet with the community to explain our research, discuss mutual interests, and ...

Now that I’ve mentioned it to her, Ms. Pacidal—an Amis Indigenous woman in her 80s—starts to fiddle with the watch on her left hand. It has a black, square, ...

For decades, the Neanderthal body has been a byword for strength. Thick bones, broad rib cages, and robust muscle attachments painted a picture of powerful ...

A Tanzanian poet unseats the illusionist tale of the mission museum of the Archabbey of St. Ottilien in Germany. ✽ brick and mortar like skin and bone ...

High above the valley floor in the Altai Mountains of western Mongolia, a glacier-polished boulder sits like a sentinel. On its surface, an elk is carved ...

In the dense jungle of western Belize, buried beneath a ceremonial acropolis in one of the Maya world’s most expansive ancient cities, archaeologists have ...

In the foothills of western Iran’s Zagros Mountains, long before villages lined the valleys or fields yielded barley and lentils, small communities came ...

Until recently, most of what was known about ancient disease came from indirect traces: pitting in skeletal bones, ancient texts, or lingering scars in the ...

In the highlands of Eswatini, long before kingdoms were carved or borders drawn, ancient hunter-gatherers trekked across rugged terrain in pursuit of a ...

In the shifting light of Arctic winters, where sea ice fractures under the weight of wind and time, a unique dog breed has followed humans for nearly a ...

The Himalayas have long stood as a boundary between empires, languages, and ecologies. Yet even as a formidable barrier, these mountains have hosted human ...