New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...

Leading archaeologist Jon Lohse will speak in Allen about discoveries at the Gault site, challenging the narrative of when ...

This gilt-copper nose ornament, discovered at the archaeological site of Loma Negra in northern Peru, depicts the important ...

New analysis of ancient artifacts reveal evidence that the First Americans arrived from East Asia by traveling along the ...

Mayan language experts have decoded the name of a previously unknown Maya queen on a stone inscription discovered last year.

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, ...

New research suggests that dinosaur populations were thriving in North America before the asteroid impact 66 million years ...

Overall, the study tells us that by 1021 CE, the Vikings were already in North America. They could have been there earlier, ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

A new analysis of stone tools offers strong evidence for the theory that ancient people from the Pacific Rim traveled a ...

From the rediscovery of the “Lost Golden City” in Egypt to North America’s oldest footprints, 2021 reshaped our understanding ...

Hidden beneath Michigan’s forests, researchers have uncovered vast ancient farmlands built by ancestral Menominee communities ...