Long before the great stone towers of Babylon or the golden spires of Thebes, there was Çatalhöyük—an ancient city built not of kings and conquests, but…

  In the heart of Modena, Italy, beneath the gilded arches of Galleria Estense, rests a violin that has not been played in centuries—but sings louder than…

  Long before the thunder of dinosaurs shook the Earth’s crust, before ferns unfurled across steaming Permian landscapes, and even before vertebrates learned to walk upright on…

  The wind howled through the death-white corridors of Mt. Naal-Raka, a jagged тιтan rising from the frozen bones of the Pamir Mountains, near the edge of…

  In the scorching heat of an undisclosed Middle Eastern desert, archaeologists uncovered what may be the most baffling, awe-inspiring find of the century—a tomb so large,…

  It began, as many great mysteries do, with a tremor in the earth and a whisper in the dark. In a remote excavation site on the…