The ancient Athenians, confronting the tiny island of Melos in 416 BC, delivered a verdict that still governs international relations: “The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.” ...

Director Gianfranco Rosi builds an intimate city portrait of Naples, filled with people leading bustling modern lives in the environs of an ancient catastrophe.

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 ...

A double burial in Ukraine of two women from the Late Scythian culture contains a toxic red mineral, but exactly why it was used remains a mystery.

U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have damaged at least four cultural and historical sites, including palaces and an ancient ...

In a study published in the journal Iran, researcher Gad Barnea has uncovered new evidence suggesting that Zoroastrian religious practices were more prevalent and left a deeper imprint on surrounding ...

While trickery is old, what’s new is the very high level at which realistic- looking and -sounding “deepfake” photos and videos, synthetic feeds, and fabricated accounts can now be made—and the sheer ...

An interdisciplinary study recently published in Nature Communications provides a clearer picture of life in Central Europe ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

The Milan Cortina Winter Paralympics will kick of with boycotts of the opening ceremony against Russia's official return to ...

International Olympic Committee officials handed Russia an initial ban in 2014 after a state-sponsored doping program was brought to light ...