The T-shaped pillar is the first with a face to be found in the Stone Age archaeological sites of Turkey’s Taş Tepeler ...

Venice was “too beautiful to be painted,” according to Claude Monet. Yet he painted the Italian city anyway.

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As coordinator of the Wildlife Confiscations Network, Mandy Fischer helps match trafficked animals—from alligators to jaguars ...

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Daniella Santoro, an anthropologist at Tulane University, and her husband Aaron Lorenz found the stone behind their home in ...

The April 1975 effort matched more than 2,800 infants and children evacuated from Vietnam with adoptive families. Today, the ...

"The Luncheon on the Grass" caused a stir when it made its debut in 1863. A century and a half later, students defended the ...