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If someone mentions criminal gangs, you might think of drug trafficking or financial crime. But one of the most persistent ...

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The Chinchorro culture experienced tragically high rates of infant mortality, possibly due to arsenic poisoning.

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted ...

Square-shaped skull discovered at Balcón de Montezuma archaeological site in Tamaulipas, Mexico, showing unique cranial modification technique. ( Technical Archive of the Physical Anthropology Section ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

Long before modern safety standards, people pushed their bodies and minds to extremes in the name of belief. This video explores the most dangerous rituals practiced by ancient tribes: ordeals of pain ...

The answer is as obvious as it seems – the Earth looks flat when you’re standing on it, not cone-shaped. Visual evidence favors one extraordinary belief over the others. Of course, scientific evidence ...

Ultimately, these 573 fortresses redefine what we know about northern China’s prehistory. Long before the first emperors ...

According to a Penn Museum press release, the exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives by incorporating first-person ...

In line with the tasks set forth by President Ilham Aliyev's Decree on declaring 2025 as the "Year of Constitution and ...