The Peabody Essex Museum is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the museum’s first permanent gathering and exhibition space, ...

“Taíno culture has roots in Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, and other ancestral homes throughout the Caribbean. The culture is ...

Somerville Road Runners’ 29th Annual Gobble, Gobble, Gobble at 9 a.m. at Davis Square, Somerville. Free (to watch) or $49 (to ...

In most narratives, the story of evolution is the story of organisms emerging from the ocean and eventually populating the ...

An ancient alabaster vase from Yale’s Babylonian Collection has revealed traces of opium, offering the strongest evidence yet of widespread opiate use in ancient Egypt. A recently analyzed alabaster v ...

Renowned archaeologist Clemency C. Coggins criticized Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography for excavating the Mexican Sacred Cenote without properly accounting for the ...

In a rare occurrence, eleven medieval rings and two medallions have emerged from the most unlikely of places - a Canadian thrift store shelf. The artifacts, which experts believe could date back to ...

The Indigenous Peoples of Oceania hosted a workshop on Thursday to examine Yale’s and the Peabody Museum’s collection of indigenous people’s remains, pointing toward over 800 human remains currently ...

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a ...

Students will have a chance to study the mysterious artifacts in a new course slated to launch in the fall of 2026. Simon Fraser University / Sam Smith Last year, someone made an unusual donation to ...

Harvard University will relinquish ownership of the earliest known photographs of enslaved people as part of a historic legal settlement announced Wednesday by nationally renowned civil rights ...

BOSTON — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a ...