After studying the samples, Dr. Evans determined that the cave spiders had been hijacked by a fungus he dubbed Gibellula ...

With the head of a lion, the body of a woman, and near uncontrollable blood lust, Sekhmet stands out as one of ancient Egypt’s most fearsome and revered goddesses. Associated with the sun god Ra, and ...

Scientists have long known that beer played an important role in ancient Mesopotamia, widely known as the cradle of human civilization, but they struggled to find concrete evidence of the beverage — ...

The Inca citadel of Machu Picchu is one of the most stunning yet confounding pieces of architecture known to man, lasting for 600 years high atop the Peruvian Andes. But why would 15th-century ...