A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

Rashi, explaining the view of Rabbi Nehemiah in the Talmud [1] that they spontaneously sang the song together, says that the Holy Spirit rested on them and miraculously the same words came into their ...

I lost my mother on 15 January. Her notebooks revealed to me the restless often tortured quest that Indian women embarked on ...

We’re warned that sleeplessness takes a serious toll. But obsessing over how to cure it may be even more damaging.

Opened in 2016, the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., tells America’s story through the lens of Black experience. That story, and the NMAAHC itself, is for ...

Venus figurines are most famous for their sexual features. These often-voluptuous carvings of female forms, made between around 30,000 and 20,000 years ago, have been interpreted as ritual ...

“That is a moment that I will take with me to my grave,” says Tamara Lanier, describing the first time she saw the image of her ancestor, an enslaved man known by his descendants as Papa Rent ...

Pioneering genetics research by Dr Hans Eiberg and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen has traced blue-eyed individuals to one ancestor about 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea ...

Anita Rao At that moment in time, Tina was in her 40s, a mother to three adult children, and living near Dallas, Texas, the frustration she felt about being a black queer woman in the US was sitting ...

With the help of the show's host, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Seyfried traced her ancestry back four generations and learned about a relative named John Peter Ebert who was born in Germany in 1844.

Jan 16 (Reuters) - The incorporation of meat into the diet was a milestone for the human evolutionary lineage, a potential catalyst for advances such as increased brain size. But scientists have ...

The research has revealed that hominins—a group containing modern humans plus our closest extinct ancestors and relatives—who once lived in what is now Israel likely consumed a wide range of ...