We explore stunning similarities between Native American, ancient Egyptian, and Inca cultures. Our journey uncovers ...

Fresh research into the spectacular rock art of southwest Texas has revealed that ancient hunter-gatherers maintained a sophisticated belief system for more than four millennia, creating elaborate ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

Archeologists beam lasers from the sky to unearth ancient settlements hiding in plain sight. Lidar uses laser pulses to penetrate dense vegetation, revealing human-built structures underneath. The ...

Foreword -- Ancient America : The sources -- The origins of the native population of America and of the American cultures -- The birth of agriculture in America -- The geographical setting of the ...

The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Civilizations explores the world's earliest cultures, from the farming settlements of Mesopotamia to the Americas and Polynesia, via the birth of Greek city ...

Arriving in the 15th century and beyond, European explorers came to North America hoping to discover another civilization like those of the Maya or Inca to plunder. Not finding mountains of gold or ...

Rachel Feltman: There’s been a lot of hype around artificial intelligence lately. Some companies want us to believe that machine learning is powerful enough to practically tell the future. But what ...

Could the 2000-year-old Temple of Jupiter have extraterrestrial origins? Season 2 opens with a look at the ancient site of Baalbak, and the mastery of mathematical codes found in megaliths across the ...

A study published in the journal Antiquity suggested an ancient South American civilization spiked a beer-like drink with psychoactive drugs as a way of maintaining social cohesion and forging new ...