The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of ...

Africa has hosted many great empires over the ages, but despite having contact with both Europe and Asia, did not keep up ...

Loren Munk is unmissable. Dressed in white bespeckled painter’s pants, this 73-year-old artist shambles into New York’s ...

Archaeologists pinpointed the location of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyaha which took place in what is now Iraq in 636 AD. The ...

Selina Denman charts the story of this part of East Africa--where African, Arab and European influences merge--as well as her own chapter in it.