Researchers investigating how the first writing arose identified the motifs on preliterate "cylinder seals" used in the trade ...

If Earth's history were a calendar year, humans would not appear until the last few minutes before midnight on Dec. 31.

Imagine that a massive ice sheet covered Canada and oozed down over a large part of the northern United States, like icing ...

Miki Hayakawa, One Afternoon, ca. 1935, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in., New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of Preston McCrossen in memory of his wife, the artist, 1954, 520.23P Note to editors: ...

An exhibit of 30 historical maps, on loan from Nicolaysen Art Museum, are being displayed at Fort Caspar Museum for a limited ...