A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

There's so much to see and do in Rome it's hard to fit it all into a weekend. This four-day itinerary will help you make the most of your time.

In the poem, Ibn al‑Wardi imagines the plague as a wandering trickster who drifts from one region to another, spreading death ...

The digital Itiner-e atlas is revolutionizing how we see the ancient world. In it, researchers have mapped the entirety of ...

The Arabian and African tectonic plates failed to pull apart 28 million years ago at the Gulf of Suez, but the area hasn't ...