There's still a lot left to learn when it comes to ancient history, and scientists are still finding locations long since ...

The greatest civilisations of humanity – today increasingly merged into the amorphous world of the globalised consumer ...

A comprehensive analysis of thousands of homes from the last 10,000 years reveals the distribution of wealth in ancient times ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny details ...

A family altar in the Maya city of Tikal offers a glimpse into ... a nose bar and spool-shaped ear jewelry (picture a fancy ancient version of modern earlobe plugs). Proyecto Arqueológico del ...

I feel like my early history education was basically like "a bunch of tribes who ate buffalo and occasionally scratched things on rocks here, Aztecs here, Maya here, Inka there, where did they go ...

Now, scientists have been able to confirm the identity of the mystery fossil, known as Penghu 1, through analyzing ancient protein fragments contained in teeth still attached to the jaw.

Here, in the heart of the ancient Maya site of Tikal, stood an altar built and painted in the style of Teotihuacan, the far-off metropolis in central Mexico. This altar may be the clearest ...

The Guatemalan government announced the discovery of an ancient Teotihuacan altar in Tikal National Park, shedding new light on the interactions between the Teotihuacan and Mayan cultures ...

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, Calif. – A secretarial memo issued Friday by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins created an Emergency Situation Determination for 112,646,000 acres of national forest ...