The American chestnut is a singular, iconic tree of the eastern United States. It was majestic, supported animals that lived under it and provided valuable timber.

You can compare throwing one of these ancient dice to a coin toss – although this discovery also underscores that dice are much older than coins.

Sport has a remarkable way of outlasting the very cultures that create it. While empires collapse and languages fade into ...

Depictions of dogs in Maya art and archaeological finds point to a variety of possible roles in the ancient culture.

Elisa Tamarkin retraces her father’s work in Vietnam, and untangles the relationship of American newspaper business to the ...

While US and Israeli fire threatened some of Iran’s most cherished cultural relics, scores of Persian artefacts were safe and ...

Curious sunken features beneath the Great Lakes are helping to reveal clues to a lost chapter in the prehistory of the ...

The season includes a Duchamp retrospective at MoMA, a window on Etruscan civilization at the de Young in San Francisco and a ...