Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science.. The ...

Rheem house spiral staircase, Orinda, Calif. From Sevilla Brace (Hayden) Shuey's photography collection. Sevilla was the mother-in-law of Vice Admiral Allen Mayhew Shinn, who was the second child of ...

Elephantine, a town at Egypt's southern frontier near modern-day Aswan, provides a unique window into the urban life of some ...