DNA shines a light back into the past, showing us things that fossils can't. But how far back can that light extend? Some of the oldest DNA sequences come from mastodon and polar bear fossils about 50 ...
Tyria Moore secretly recorded her confession, which is heard in full for the first time in Netflix's 'Aileen: Queen of the ...
From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...
In an excerpt from his new book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean explores a weird and wild '90s experiment to replicate ancient ...
Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...
After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries "The American Revolution," filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin Franklin. Burns was ...