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

Archaeologists in Greece have uncovered the grave of an ousted noblewoman whom they are calling "The Lady with the Inverted ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds.

The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft ...

Spot the stunning ‘Cold Moon,’ the third in the series of three sequential supermoons in 2025, which will appear alongside ...

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

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that ...

Recent discoveries in an archaeological site in Mexico sheds new light into the beginning of the Maya civilization, and how ...

A major new study challenges long-standing ideas about who built Poverty Point, one of the Americas’ oldest monuments, 3,500 ...

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 ...

A mysterious formation in South America leaves visitors wondering whether this "Egyptian Sphinx" is a work of human hands or ...