A trio of archaeologists from the University of Barcelona and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, both in Spain, and the ...

Well before the Europeans arrived, the indigenous people of North America raised cities that rivaled those an ocean away. From Teotihuacan to Cahokia, these ancient metropolises featured striking ...

DNA of Indigenous peoples reveals their migration into South America 14,500 years ago and highlights health risks tied to ...

An international genomics study has revealed that early Asians undertook humanity's longest known prehistoric migration. These early humans, who roamed the earth over 100,000 years ago, are believed ...

A large-scale genome study shows that Indigenous peoples in the Americas split off several times, resulting in loss of ...

Maps have been around since humans could communicate through drawings to describe the location of a specific place. Some of ...

‘It’s South America, but you don’t have to worry about your phone being nicked or sudden gunfire’ Little Uruguay, wedged between the mighty Argentina and Brazil, is a nation of subtle ...

But the recent discovery of 200-year-old rock paintings found in South Africa now has scientists hypothesizing that this ancient creature may have been far more than just a legend. The first ...

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people ...

An ancient woman’s recently discovered, richly adorned gravesite is helping archeologists better understand the complex gender relationships in South America’s oldest known civilization.

The accident, one of the most horrific (and preventable) aviation disasters in South American history, resulted in nearly 200 deaths. The series explores not just the crash itself, but frames it ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes.