How did you become interested in Assyria as a scholarly topic? Eckart Frahm: I first became interested in Mesopotamia when I was in high school. I took some Hebrew, simply because I wanted to learn a ...

At Lewa, Waweru was driven around the property by a staff member who leads tours there and who had previously discovered multiple other ancient sites on the conservancy, including a burial complex ...

A significant increase in Yale’s voluntary payments to the city, totaling $52 million in new money over six years. When combined with Yale’s existing voluntary payments, Yale will contribute ...

The gift, made by Yale alumnus Joseph C. Tsai ’86, ’90 J.D., and his wife, Clara Wu Tsai, will establish the Wu Tsai Institute, a new kind of research organization that bridges the psychological, ...

Acquired by Yale in the mid-1960s, the purported 15th-century map depicts a pre-Columbian “Vinlanda Insula,” a section of North America’s coastline southwest of Greenland. While earlier studies had ...

This week, local and international colleagues are gathering on campus for a three-day conference to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Yale scientists’ first published studies in what would be ...

The search for Yale’s 24th leader was “robust” and designed “to cast a wide net and to gain different perspectives on the ideal qualities and qualifications of the next president,” Bekenstein said.

At the same time, buildings were becoming more complex, so we were drawing a lot more. A recent article in Harvard Design Magazine had a great infographic that showed how many drawings it had taken to ...

In one of the new studies, Sherman and first author Matthew Eckelman, an associate professor at Northeastern University and adjunct associate professor at Yale, estimated that greenhouse gas emissions ...

In his new book, “ Hearsay Is Not Excluded: A History of Natural History ” (Yale University Press), Yale anthropologist Michael R. Dove argues that the modern rise of narrow, siloed scientific ...

In principle, it should operate at nearly the speed of light, which is more than 670 million miles per hour. Instead, internet data moves 37 to 100 times slower than that. The technical term for this ...

Throughout the second half of the century, Bangladesh began a nation-wide effort to switch their water sources to tube wells. These deep water wells that connect to underground aquifers were adopted ...