Hibernian Irish Night returned to the city of Holyoke Saturday evening to kick off the 2025 Irish cultural season.

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

As the Trump administration reimagines the United States' posture in the three-year-old Russia-Ukraine war, the scholarship ...

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

Should the world stop using the name ‘Russia’ and go back to the old name ‘Muscovy’? The question has been raised by critics ...

Recent scientific reevaluations of remains have historians rethinking the prevalence of women fighters throughout history.

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Established in 1954, Zhezkazgan’s name reflects its vast copper reserves. Russian explorers had long documented the area’s ...

Archaeologists from the Institute of History of Material Culture at the Russian Academy of Sciences have discovered four settlements dating back to the Late Neolithic Age (2nd–1st millennia B.C.) in ...

To overcome this, Reich and his colleagues, including scientists in Russia and Ukraine ... continue with the goal of understanding the ancient history of the steppe, which spans political borders.

But these are not the only global naming disputes in recent history. For over a quarter century, the Balkans were at odds over the name of the Macedonia region, which contains large parts of Southeast ...