Across ancient civilizations, law often carried a strangeness that feels almost unbelievable today. Weird rules shaped the ...

Every two years, the world turns its attention to the Olympic Games — the Summer and Winter spectacles that bring together athletes from nearly every ...

Paris, a city of art, welcomed the most recent Olympic Games in 2024 with a sweep of cultural offerings that paid homage to the association the Games have had with aesthetics since the days of the ...

NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They stressed that in-depth analysis ...

Chris Key was visiting the Cumberland River from Elkhorn to fish for striped bass and walleye, but he found something much bigger. Did you know there are big, ancient fish swimming in Kentucky's water ...

With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled and occasionally froze for a ...

Archaeologists in drought-hit Iraq have discovered 40 ancient tombs after water levels in the country's largest reservoir declined, an antiquities official said Saturday. The tombs, believed to be ...

Scientists have finally uncovered direct genetic evidence of Yersinia pestis — the bacterium behind the Plague of Justinian — in a mass grave in Jerash, Jordan. This long-sought discovery resolves a ...

Researchers recently used near-infrared photography to get a detailed look at ancient artwork showing scenes of wild animals tangled in a fight. But these weren’t paintings on a cave wall. They were ...

The discus throw is a track and field event where athletes throw a heavy, round-shaped disc as far as possible while remaining inside a 2.5-metre diameter circle. The winner is the athlete who throws ...