Boston's African Meeting House reopened last week after undergoing a meticulous restoration that returned the structure to its 19th-century appearance.
Just because our Stone Age predecessors lived in caves doesn’t mean they couldn’t appreciate soft, comfortable bedding 77,000 years ago.
A human longevity expert assessed the longstanding theory that the stresses of the job make American presidents age more quickly.
A treatise by the pioneering statistician John Graunt, now on display at London’s Royal Society, provides a glimpse at life and death in the 1600s.
One of history’s most famous doomsday predictions might rely on a faulty translation of an ancient Mayan tablet.
Explore the lives of 10 daring and intriguing covert agents you might not have read about in history books.
Wolves evolved into man’s best friend south of the Yangtze River in what is now China, according to a new study.
Why have the genes behind synesthesia, a condition with a higher incidence among artists, survived throughout human history?
