A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Aimee Semple McPherson took to the radio to spread the Gospel, but her mysterious disappearance cast a shadow on her ...

Built by the inhabitants of Caral for unknown reasons, it bears a curious resemblance to this stone relief found at a site that thrived 1,000 years later about ... Steinmetz Six earth-and-rock ...

Depicted by the statue is the Buddha Amitābha, a prominent figure in Mahayana Buddhism.

The Buddha statue unearthed recently in North Korea was sculpted during the Golden Age of Buddhism, which emerged out of an ...

The iconography of the Amitābha typically includes two bodhisattvas, enlightened deities that reached nirvana but chose to remain on Earth to lead others out of suffering. With Avalokiteśvara on ...

Sominsai: The End of a 1000-Year-Old Festival is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire ...

In The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire, science writer Henry Gee considers how long we’ve got, and how we can extend our ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature has revealed that humans were living in Malta at least 8,500 years ago, a full millennium before the first farmers arrived. The discovery overturns decades ...