The Invention of a Desert Tongue for ‘Dune’ Language constructors for the movies started with words Frank Herbert made up for his 1965 novel but went much further, creating an extensive ...

The Ussher chronology, a historical scaffold for biblical events, crumbled in the course of the deep-time revolution of the 19th century. The new science of geology demonstrated that our planet ...

In “The Invention of Prehistory,” the historian Stefanos Geroulanos argues that many of our theories about our remote ancestors tell us more about us than them. By Jennifer Szalai When you ...