Well before the Europeans arrived, the indigenous people of North America raised cities that rivaled those an ocean away.

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Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient ...

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

Sediment DNA also traces life outside the cave. Predators dragged prey into sheltered chambers, humans left waste behind. By ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

A thirty-year scientific partnership between archaeologists and the Kuikuro people, in the Xingu Indigenous Territory in Mato ...

While the Romans never ruled over Ireland, their conquest of Britain in the first century a.d. brought expanded trade opportunities to the Emerald Isle. From the first to third century a.d., the site ...

A young woman buried in China’s Tarim Basin some 2,000 years ago went to the afterlife accompanied by the height of fashion. The woman, who was wrapped in a felt blanket and buried in a coffin ...

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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 ...

Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of ...