After discovering a trove of mummified crocodiles in Egypt, researchers noticed something unexpected—these reptiles had an ...

Chinguetti, Mauritania is home to some of West Africa’s oldest Quranic texts and manuscripts. It could soon be swallowed by the sand.

Michaël Borremans shares talked to us about his career, coinciding with "A Confrontation at the Zoo" at Museum Voorlinden in ...

The 8.5-mile-long wall that surrounds Xi’an, touted as one of the best-preserved walled fortifications in China, could be the ...

Belgian festival-goers are furious after the government banned ... ‘The lonely gudgeon playfully seeks a way and hides in the stomach of prominent people.’ ...

Thermopolis turns up in odd places. In a 1982 film, Daffy Duck fought Bugs Bunny for the right to sell books there and in ...

Perhaps this is the reason we should look at biological hell, as I did at MoMA. It jolts us, connects us to our bodies, ...

Shifting sands have long covered the ancient city's 8th-century core and ... metres of dunes onto Chinguetti's streets and in people’s homes, submerging some entirely. Tree-planting projects ...

Miriam Ellner is an artist with a capital A. The New York–based maker is world-renowned for her intricate gilded-glass ...

On March 6, 1944, during World War II, U.S. bombers flying from Britain began the first daytime attacks on Berlin.

68.And finally, this is the oldest photograph ever taken. Nicéphore Niépce took the photo from his window in France in 1826.