Archaeologists are piecing together the world’s oldest known rune stone. It could shed light on the origins of early written Germanic languages and who inscribed it.

D NA’s power to illuminate humanity’s past never ceases to amaze. Collected from those now alive, it shows how their ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Of course, the Russian diplomatic traditions date back to more distant times. For instance, the ‘Agreement on Peace and Love’ between ancient Russia and the Byzantine Empire was signed in 860, and the ...

Photo: Ju Peng/Alexander Kazakov/Associated Press/Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Xi Jinping has been a close observer of Russia’s three-year old war in Ukraine. China’s president has been ...

Following Russia's ban from competing in Eurovision in 2022 after the country's invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has ordered the return of Intervision, a Soviet-era singing ...

To overcome this, Reich and his colleagues, including scientists in Russia and Ukraine, generated genome data from 428 ancient individuals, including hundreds of Yamnaya people and individuals who ...

—Ancient bird with T. rex-like skull discovered in China Daniel Ksepka , a paleontologist at the Bruce Museum in Connecticut who was not involved in the study, agreed.

China hit the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs across the board over President Trump’s enforcement of tariffs on Chinese goods that went into effect Tuesday. China’s Ministry of Finance announced ...

"The vulnerability was actively exploited by Russian cybercrime groups through spear-phishing campaigns, using homoglyph attacks to spoof document extensions and trick users and the Windows Operating ...

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

Things in the Arctic have never been hotter. In the past year, Russian nuclear submarines have practiced firing cruise missiles near NATO members Norway, Finland and Sweden. That drill followed ...