For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

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From his roof, Sidi Mohamed Lemine Sidiya scans the medieval town of Oualata, a treasure that is disappearing under the sands ...

At the Xiatang site, remains of a primitive village more than 9,000 years old have been discovered. Residents of this ancient ...

From the trenches of the World Wars to the scheming royal courts, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens to towering ...

When workers began excavating a new parking garage in Rome, they discovered what archeologists say was once Emperor Caligula's "pleasure gardens." Anderson Cooper reports on the find and the scholarly ...

You hear Game of Thrones, and chances are your mind goes straight to the big stuff: epic battles, shocking betrayals, fire-breathing dragons. Fair enough.

The main floor alone would qualify as an impressive bookstore by any standard, with shelves stretching from floor to ceiling. But this is just the appetizer before a multi-course literary feast. As ...

Mr. Mendelsohn, the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic,” recently published a new translation of the Odyssey ...

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures ...

It’s all designed to argue that the biblical story was literally true — that an ancient Noah really could have built such a ...