In 1872, British Museum curator George Smith made a discovery that would shake Victorian England's understanding of biblical history. Working late into the London evening, surrounded by fragments of ...

Federal prosecutors in the Western District of Texas have filed 250 new immigration-related criminal cases, targeting human smugglers and illegal aliens with prior convictions.

As Nicolas Roeg’s enigmatic, unclassifiable film – in which David Bowie plays an alien visiting Earth – turns 50, we look back at Tom Milne’s deciphering of it. From our Summer 1976 issue.

A federal judge ordered a 14-year-old taken by immigration agents and driven to New York to be returned to her aunt in Massachusetts.

For the first time, researchers have digitally reconstructed the facial fragments of the individual, who belonged to the Australopithecus genus ...

Paint Mines Interpretive Park in Calhan is Colorado’s best-kept secret, and honestly, the locals would probably prefer it ...

Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to ...

A new study suggests that the deadly insects evolved their taste for human blood much earlier than previously thought, around when Homo erectus migrated into Southeast Asia ...

Shaped by a different biology or culture, other intelligent civilisations – if they’re out there – might understand the ...

There is a silence in the night sky that has bothered me for as long as I can remember. ” That observation, attributed to ...

Humans and Neanderthals cozied up from time to time when they lived in the same areas tens of thousands of years ago. But we ...

Little Foot” is the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found. And now we finally have an idea of what this group of ...