Cats were domesticated in North Africa, but spread to Europe only about 2,000 years ago. Earlier reports of “house” cats were ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

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These out-of-place artifacts, or OOPArts, are surprising for their place and time — but there's an explanation behind each ...

The death toll in last week’s building collapse at the site of a Hindu temple in South Africa has risen to five, and ...

The Native towns that Jamestown colonist John Smith once sketched as small symbols on a fragile map have long existed more as legend than landscape. Now, after years of methodical digging and tribal ...

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Officials have unveiled the tomb of an ancient warrior, buried over 1,300 years ago by a long-forgotten people. King Saint Stephen Museum, located in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, announced the discovery ...

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Gustav Klimt's lost 1897 portrait of Ghana's Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona - Copyright AFP Marcel van Hoorn Gustav Klimt's lost 1897 portrait of Ghana's Prince ...

A man walked into a Viennese gallery one day in the summer of 2023 looking to sell a Gustav Klimt painting. The person who greeted him thought it was a joke, and gently sent him on his way. But when ...

GENEVA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Women fleeing Sudan's al-Fashir city report killings, systematic rape and the disappearance of their children following its capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...