Why are white people often called “Caucasian”? The answer goes back to the 18th century, when anthropologist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach divided humanity into five groups and chose the Caucasus ...

In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries of prejudice and misapprehension. Americans have long been invested in an ...

Researchers used drone imagery to analyze the full scope of a massive, 3,000-year-old fortress in the Caucasus mountains. Digitally stitching together 11,000 images, they created a complete map of the ...