Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ranging ...

In the end, the lack of crowds didn’t much matter. Careful orchestration, strategic camera angles and some deft artistic touches created the necessary sense of spectacle and occasion. The new ...

Ice Age Europeans carved the same 32 symbols across an entire continent. Were they decorating caves—or building the first written language?

When you think of old money luxuries, what comes to mind? Fur coats? Grand pianos? Tobacco rooms? These once-prized possessions reflected an era of grandeur and sophistication that have long since ...

Soot and grime slowly accumulated on the ceiling of an ancient Egyptian temple. The once-vibrant and colorful decorations became increasingly obscured as centuries of apathy stretched into millennia ...

Old Abe was a female eagle born in 1861 right at the start of the Civil War in Jim Falls, Wisconsin in Chippewa County.