Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

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Fresh research into the spectacular rock art of southwest Texas has revealed that ancient hunter-gatherers maintained a sophisticated belief system for more than four millennia, creating elaborate ...

Everyone knows about Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, but did you know the U.S. is home to over 130 national monuments just ...

Experts believe ancient peoples would leave canoes for communal use, much like a modern-day e-bike rental system ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...

Finding the oldest Maya site ever documented was only the beginning of archaeologist Takeshi Inomata’s discoveries. After locating the Aguada Fénix site buried in the jungle of southern Mexico in 2017 ...

In November 2025, Pope Leo XIV visits Turkey to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea (325 AD), the ...

Johnson is one of eight curators from eight Indigenous communities around the country who collaborated with Penn Museum. They represent the tribes of Delaware, Muscogee Creek, Eastern Band of Cherokee ...

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