Nothing makes us think of the future like robots. From Terminator to Star Wars, robots are synonymous with high technology, a future world in which our science is so advanced that we can create artificial …

With some of the world’s most famous monuments, Egypt became a popular subject for photography as the technology became more widely available in the mid-nineteenth century. But what began with European visitors posing in front …

It’s an iconic image: the mummified pharaoh wrapped in linen bandages and lying in a beautifully-painted sarcophagus, arms crossed over his chest and canopic jars resting beside him in his tomb. Made famous by archaeology …

In 1848, the Treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War, leaving America in possession of most of what we now consider to be the Southwestern United States: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and …

They were like nothing that had ever come before. In the ancient seas of the late Silurian and Devonian Ages lived some of the most distinctive fish to have ever evolved. Armored like swimming tanks …

What is the nature of reality? Why does the world contain so much pain and suffering, and is there any escape? How do we transcend the human condition and connect with whatever lies beyond? All …

It was an institution like nothing else in the world. Foreign slaves, given weapons and trained to fight for the very rulers who enslaved them. But a mamluk (from the Arabic word for “the owned”), or, in …

If you were just the right age in 1993 (about 8-10) seeing the original Jurassic Park on the big screen was a world-altering experience, because if you still hadn’t lost your interest in dinosaurs, Steven Spielberg’s film …