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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

The extremely long skull of a medieval knight points to an underlying genetic condition.

This sixth-century pectoral comprises 14 Byzantine gold coins and a gold disc gathered over two centuries.

Retired senior state archaeologist Breck Parkman used artifacts found in old ruins or the chemistry of rocks to piece ...

Unlike other such galleries across the country, Penn claims the inclusion of Indigenous curators makes this one stand out.

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 ...