Audrey Azoulay, the director-general of UNESCO, announcing the United States' request to return to the organization

The United States Is Rejoining UNESCO

The country’s tumultuous relationship with the organization stretches back 40 years

Alex Morgan scores the U.S. team's second goal against England during the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.

This Summer’s Women’s World Cup Follows Decades of Challenges On and Off the Field

Predicted to break attendance records, the tournament has already sold over a million tickets

An animated rendering of one of Leonardo's designs for a flying machine

Explore Animated Models, Digitized Sketches and More in Leonardo da Vinci’s Largest-Ever Online Retrospective

The new Google Arts & Culture hub features high-resolution scans, 3D renderings and artificial intelligence experiments

Lee Wan-kyu, South Korea's minister of government legislation, holds a whiteboard showing his Korean age alongside his international age.

South Koreans Just Got Younger, Thanks to a New Law

The country previously had three distinct systems for determining age, often leading to confusion

Women in foraging societies may have been just as skillful hunters as men were, but researchers have historically dismissed their hunting contributions.

Early Women Were Hunters, Not Just Gatherers, Study Suggests

Regardless of maternal status, women hunted in almost 80 percent of recent and present-day foraging societies in a new study

Forensic artist Hew Morrison created this rendering based on the skull of the girl.

Forensic Artist Reconstructs the Face of a Teenager Who Lived 1,300 Years Ago

Researchers have spent a decade unraveling the mysteries of the girl’s unusual burial site

A recently unearthed fresco at a house in Pompeii shows a flatbread that could have been a precursor to pizza.

Cool Finds

Does This Pompeii Painting Depict a 2,000-Year-Old Pizza?

The fresco features a flatbread with a variety of toppings—but no tomato and mozzarella

Visited by millions every year, the Colosseum has already been vandalized four times in 2023.

Tourist Carves Girlfriend’s Name Into the Colosseum

Video footage shows a man using keys to scratch a message into the 2,000-year-old amphitheater’s wall

Researchers think that this pendant could be the oldest known depiction of a penis—and early evidence of humans' ability to think symbolically.

New Research

Is This the Earliest Known Phallic Art?

Researchers think the 42,000-year-old artifact was carved from graphite to resemble a penis

A rendering of what the site in Tiel may have once looked like

Cool Finds

Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old ‘Dutch Stonehenge’

The ritual site was once used to determine the longest and shortest days of the year

An inscribed stone found at the Ocomtún site

Cool Finds

This Ancient Maya City Was Hidden in the Jungle for More Than 1,000 Years

Archaeologists surveying the ruins of Ocomtún found pyramids, stone columns and a ballgame court

Inscriptions on the statues in both Etruscan and Latin are still legible after thousands of years.

Found in Ancient Spa, Stunningly Preserved Bronze Statues Go on View in Rome

The trove of 2,300-year-old bronzes was discovered last year in a thermal spring in Tuscany

The three-inch-long pottery shard contains only parts of a passage from Virgil's Georgics.

Cool Finds

Virgil Quotation Found Etched on 1,800-Year-Old Roman Jar

Researchers say the ancient inscription is the first of its kind ever discovered

After more than 100 years, Germany returned two centuries-old masks to Colombia's Indigenous Kogi community.

Germany Returns Sacred Wooden Masks to Colombia

In Berlin, the centuries-old artifacts were treated with chemicals that could pose health hazards

A walkway for visitors to tour the newly opened site

You Can Now Visit the Site Where Julius Caesar Was Stabbed

Rediscovered in the 1920s, the Roman square is now welcoming visitors for the first time

The hilt of a the recently discovered Bronze Age sword, which was extraordinarily well-preserved

Cool Finds

Archaeologists Find 3,000-Year-Old Sword So Well Preserved It ‘Almost Still Shines’

The Bronze Age artifact was discovered in a grave during excavations in southern Germany

One of the mysterious boats painted in an Australian cave several hundred years ago

New Research

New Study Identifies Mysterious Boats Painted in Australian Cave

Researchers say the rock art may be a record of “fighting craft” from present-day Indonesia

An astonishingly well preserved mosaic was unearthed at the same site in early 2022.

Cool Finds

Rare Roman Mausoleum Unearthed in London

Archaeologists say it’s the most intact structure of its kind ever found in Britain

Archaeologists in England found Bronze Age skeletal remains, cremation burials and artifacts.

Bronze Age Cemetery Discovered Near Stonehenge

Archaeologists found graves and artifacts while preparing land for a new subdivision in southern England

Portraits by a young Charles show his mother, Elizabeth II, wearing a striped dress and tiara, and his father, Prince Philip, wearing a dinner suit and bow tie.

See Charles III’s Childhood Drawings

Made by a young Charles in the ‘50s, the crayon and pencil illustrations sold for thousands at auction

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