On August 27, 1908, the small town of Folsom, New Mexico, with a population of roughly 250 people, was hit by a catastrophic ...

Traces of plant poison on ancient African arrowheads provide the oldest direct evidence of poisoned weapons. Scientists have ...

Relief of Osiris from the Temple of Seti I, Abydos, Egypt. According to Egyptian mythology, Egypt’s first king Osiris sailed around the world spreading knowledge, exactly like the Feathered Serpent ...

Wiz Khalifa joins Sanaa Lathan for a sit-down with Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the latest episode of “Finding Your Roots.” ...

For more than a century, biologists assumed that the bony plates embedded in the skin of lizards – like natural chain mail – ...

Cynthia Moss, founder of Amboseli Trust for Elephants, named the iconic bull elephant “Craig’ as part of her long-term ...

A terracotta figurine in the form of a pig was made in Egypt around 3000 b.c., during the Early Dynastic period. Pork accounts for more than a third of the world’s meat, making pigs among the planet’s ...

An interdisciplinary study claims to have rewritten over a century of accepted historical chronology, pushing the foundation of the Macedonian kingdom back nearly 75 years from the traditionally ...

This video explores Egyptian mythology by explaining the origins of the gods, beginning with Atum and Ra, followed by the divine family line of Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, and Horus. It ...

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – Christmas Day has finally arrived, and over two billion people around the world will be celebrating. Traditionally, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ, ...

The exact date of Jesus's birth is unknown, though it is estimated to have been in the spring between 6 and 4 B.C. Christians began celebrating Christmas on December 25 in the 4th century, possibly to ...