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 ...

Two new studies challenge what we thought we knew about the first humans in the Americas. Could people have been on these continents 10 to 15 thousand years earlier than archaeologists previously ...

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

As the devastating conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) continues to rage, ...

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