New evidence has emerged that sheds light on the possible first people to populate the Americas. Dating of stone and ivory ...

Migration into the Americas is not about a single “path,” but timing can still rule routes in or out. The Holzman evidence supports the idea of a southward movement of ancestral Clovis-era populations ...

Starchy residue preserved in ancient stone tools may rewrite the story of crop domestication in the American Southwest, according to research led by the University of Utah.

The two silver amulet scrolls date to 600 BC and are inscribed with the priestly blessing of Numbers 6:24–26. They were ...

Studies have reaffirmed a centuries-old theory, argued by many historians over time: there was, in fact, a Viking presence in America in the year 1021.

An ancient DNA analysis of a 5,500-year-old human skeleton reveals that an ancestor of the bacterium that causes syphilis was ...

Long before written history, entire cultures thrived across the Americas—and then vanished. This video explores the lost tribes we only know through ruins, artifacts, and fragments. Their ...

The history of the planet and the civilizations that have lived on it are among life’s greatest mysteries.People have roamed ...

The past has a remarkable habit of refusing to stay in the shadows. Every year, surprise findings and archaeological ...

In 1959, Chinese archaeologist Xia Nai handed researchers Qiu Shihua and Cai Lianzhen a copy of Radiocarbon Dating, a book by American scientist Willard Libby, which sparked the first revolution in ...

The push is on to save relics from the Battle of Valcour Island, 250 years after American forces clashed with the British on ...

In Zapotec myth, owls were symbols of both the night and death, and the beak of the bird contains a stone head ...