Beyond the Aztec, Inca, Maya, and Mississippian cultures, countless other nations thrived across the Americas. The Mapuche in modern-day Chile and Argen ...

Our understanding of ancient civilizations is constantly challenged by newly discovered ruins that defy mainstream historical ...

When discussing the ancient world and how it impacts us today, there’s perpetually a massive tunic-clad and public-bathing elephant in the room: the Roman Empire. According to a recent social media ...

From Egypt's Valley of the Kings and America's giant dinosaurs to the lost cities of Pompeii, Stonehenge, Atlantis, Machu ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." An estimated 90 percent of human Amazonian history is lost within the jungle itself. A new discovery has ...

This article is featured in the 2023 Homecoming special issue. Frescoed onto the walls of the lower level of Baker library, José Clemente Orozco’s The Epic of American Civilization is a timeless piece ...

COLORADO, USA — An annular solar eclipse known as a ring of fire appeared over the American Southwest on Saturday morning in places like Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon, where the ancestral Puebloan ...

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 ...