Some card games still played today are hundreds of years old. Many of these games are so old they started on tiles and blocks of wood rather than paper. Here are several of the oldest card games in ...

Poet Javed Akhtar claimed that Christmas was moved from spring to December to coincide with a popular pagan festival to ease ...

An international team of scientists has found out that two types of ancient people originated in Africa, and not one, as previously thought. To clarify this issue, they analyzed the area of dental ...

Let’s be real: procedures and processes in the workplace are pretty much just part of the job. But what happens when office ...

Kanab might be the most famous “unknown” town in Utah. This little desert community has been the backdrop for hundreds of Western movies and TV shows, yet somehow remains delightfully uncrowded.

Facial tattoos have been found on the mummified remains of children who lived in Nubia some 1,400 years ago, when Christianity was introduced in the region, Live Science reports. “If the tattoos were ...

Early human ancestors called the LRJ Group lived in Europe for 80 generations, intermingling with Neanderthals, before ...

Scientists group these dragon stones into three main types: fish-shaped, hide shaped, and hybrid. Fish-shaped stones tend to appear at higher spots near mountain springs, while hide-shaped stones ...

CAIRO (AP) — A boat belonging to an Egyptian pharaoh was put on display Tuesday in the Grand Egyptian Museum’s exhibition hall while being reassembled in real time. The cedarwood boat, one of two that ...

With the human family tree now more like a hedge and twice as many known moons, Bill Bryson talks to the New Scientist ...

An LSU student is using her video game design and preservation expertise to bring modern access to an ancient canoe.

No one knows the exact dates when various ancient civilizations figured out the importance of seed corn. The idea that you do ...