Buried in the desert for roughly 4,500 years, the skeleton of a single Egyptian man has yielded a complete genome that ...

In January 2018, it was reported that, in a meeting with a group of senators at the White House, United States President Donald Trump had referred to Haiti and African nations as ‘shithole countries’.

Unique, Not Universal (1996), should have received far more attention, especially in light of its contemporary relevance. In ...

When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists, and artists. Together, they produced the monumental “Description de l’Égypte,” ...

He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his ...