Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...
The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...
Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...
The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft ...
Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that ...
According to a Penn Museum press release, the exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives by incorporating first-person ...
A major new study challenges long-standing ideas about who built Poverty Point, one of the Americas’ oldest monuments, 3,500 ...
Galvaneus studied for his doctorate in Genoa, the closest major port to Milan and a massive hub for maritime trade. A 2024 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...