Scientists have found genetic evidence of an ancient group of people in Colombia with no modern-day descendants. It’s as if ...

This article also appeared in print, under the headline “Ever Ancient, Ever New,” in the February 2, 2015, issue.

Improbable though his story seems, a Stone Age man, practically untouched by modern civilization, was alive in the U.S. only 50 years ago. When he stumbled out of the brush near Oroville in ...

Recent archaeological discovery expands our knowledge on complex Indigenous societies in South America.

Ancient Egyptians built numerous statues depicting pharaohs, including Ramesses II and Tutankhamun, or King Tut. Near the end of Pharaoh Thutmose III’s reign, between about 1479 and 1425 B.C., members ...

Centuries ago, as fresh pollen grains, sand and clay settled into this geologic layer, a vast city bustled to the south of Horseshoe Lake. A complex of farmsteads fanned out along the Mississippi ...

Ancient and Enormous South American Rock Art Mapped for First Time Shows Mysterious 100-Foot-Long Snake Published Dec 09, 2017 at 7:00 AM EST Updated Dec 10, 2017 at 11:53 AM EST ...

What we uncovered were the last traces of ancient American dogs. Máire Ní Leathlobhair, PhD candidate in biological sciences, ... In The Magazine July 04 2025 Issue. Company.

A 1990 federal law requiring repatriation of Native American artifacts and human remains, along with advances in DNA technology, increased pressure to link ancient skeletal finds to modern tribes.

This is a difficult question, at least for me and our class, and we face it each time we go to an ancient site in Turkey. We went yesterday to Colossae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis, the three cities ...

Ancient South American Civilizations Bloomed in the Desert Thanks to Seabird Poop Prehistoric farmers fertilized their crops with the waste, which they imported from the coast ...

To the editor: Recently the Chicago Reader ran a story about a local enigmatic stone [“The Riddle of the Rock” by Jeff Huebner, January 4] and featured comments by “Frank Joseph,” an ...