Moses’ and Aaron’s first encounter with Pharaoh turned out, on a human scale, to be a disaster: The conditions of Hebrew slavery worsened. They now faced the same brick quota without the necessary ...

Centuries of excavations have unearthed a few theories about what really brought down one of the oldest cities in the ancient ...

Gary Goldman, who has battled Disney in court over the franchise, thinks the viper Gary De’Snake is based on him. By Brooks Barnes Reporting from Los Angeles Gary Goldman raced to see “Zootopia 2” as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the humid swamps of what is now Colombia, there was once ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. An iconic 2.4-mile stretch of Mulholland Highway has reopened after burning in the 2018 Woolsey fire and suffering ...

Archaeologists excavating the remains of Guanzhuang—an ancient city in China’s eastern Henan Province—have discovered what they believe is the oldest-known coin mint, where miniature, shovel-shaped ...

TWO nine-metre bronze statues — Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo — are currently standing incognito along Durban’s beachfront and stadium precinct, bundled up in plastic like oversized action figures ...

A 16-story pyramid towers over the rainforest that covers the remains of the ancient Maya city of Calakmul in Mexico. Calakmul was the capital city of the Kaanul, or Snake, Dynasty from the ...

An aerial photograph of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus shows excavations of two of the city’s industrial quarters.(Courtesy Peter M. Fischer) More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named Mehmet ...

“It’s cheaper than therapy,” said Darren Genson, who volunteers with Anne Arundel County Animal Services every morning, including Christmas and New Years Day. The beloved show is not a paean to good ...

In the late Tang Dynasty, the national division mobilized people to hunt snakes in large numbers. The white snake that went to assassinate the national teacher accidentally lost his memory and was ...