Christmas has inspired the names of many places worldwide, which European sailors discovered. No other holiday has influenced ...

A map showing ... the natural world, before coming to Discover Magazine. Her current work also appears on her travel blog and Common State Magazine. Her love of science came from watching PBS shows as ...

The latest findings help to cast new light on the history of ancient Assyria—considered to be one of the world's first empires ... In 2015, much of ancient Nimrud was destroyed by the Islamic ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired the oldest known map of the world, which was carved into a clay tablet from Babylon and ...

We fell short," he said. "I'd love to be playing for a championship on Saturday, but we very much look forward to the Club World Cup, Champions League, Leagues Cup, our regular season, doing ...

The species belongs to a group of semi-aquatic rodents that is considered among the rarest in the world, and the few species ... of times by scientists, with much still to be learned about their ...

PERHAPS the best of everything is gone. Perhaps we have witnessed the best of inventions in the early twentieth century.

Natural History Museum scientists and their partners across the world named almost 200 species in the last 12 months.

The ancient battlefield was discovered near ... most pivotal moments in world history. "Following his victory here, Alexander went on to conquer Western Anatolia and much of Asia, extending ...

The mystery behind one of the world’s most mystical wonders may ... similarities to the hundreds of other ancient stone circles discovered around Britain could help historians depict a more ...

Alexander Fleming returned to his research laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital in London after World War I. His battlefront experience had shown him how serious a killer bacteria could be ...

The world's largest gold deposit has been discovered in China's central Hunan ... the site show that every tonne of ore could contain as much as 138 grams of pure gold. This would be a truly ...