From the labyrinthine alleys of Damascus to the coral-stone facades of Jeddah’s Al-Balad, the Arab world is home to some of humanity’s oldest and most breathtaking urban legacies. Across the Middle ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

For centuries, Rapanui oral traditions said the statues “walked” from the quarry—but Western scholars dismissed this as myth, assuming instead that log rollers were used. Research by Dr. Terry Hunt ...

The community living on Lake Mezzano 3,000 years ago left behind Bronze Age artifacts in addition to the wooden posts that ...

Although every nation has its peculiarities, the United States may win for having some of the most perplexing laws that are ...