New research suggests that the first Indo-European speakers lived in southern Russia 6,500 years ago, challenging ...

A 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius is filled with lost words that scholars can now ...

A new study claims to have identified the first speakers of Indo-European language, which gave rise to English, Sanskrit and ...

President Jimmy Carter posthumously won his fourth Grammy for best audiobook narration at the 2025 Grammy Awards on Sunday.

Ancient-DNA analyses identify a Caucasus Lower Volga people as the ancient originators of Proto-Indo-European, the precursor ...

The human race is presented like a museum exhibit—a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.

The late former US President Jimmy Carter has been awarded a posthumous Grammy for his narration of Last Sundays in Plains: A ...

For all those times, there’s no better place to turn than audiobooks. But not all audiobooks are created equal. Some have a narrator you just can’t stand, a cast that’s a little too full of ...

Classical Period (c. 500–323 BC) This is the most well-known period in the history of ancient Greece. It is marked by the rise of city ...

In 2007, Time magazine asserted that the Bible “has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment ... of this people’s near destruction at the hands of one of the ancient world’s superpowers ...

As a volcanic eruption darkened the sun roughly 4,900 years ago, a Stone Age culture sacrificed hundreds of decorated stone plaques to try to coax it back. A trove of engraved stones unearthed ...

A significant portion of human development and history may be traced back to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, in and around present-day Iraq. The study of these new tablets could reveal ...