Humans reached Americas 100,000 years earlier than thought
Ewen Callaway
Ancient humans settled in North America around 130,000 years ago, suggests a controversial study — pushing the date back more than 100,000 years...
Cahokia, America’s Great City
Alice B. Kehoe
Larger than London or Paris in its time, what is now America’s heartland had a magnificent city between 1030 and 1200 CE....
Egyptian vs Mesoamerican Architecture
Observe the similarities of the Egyptian and Mesoamerican building styles...
Ancient Civilization Lies Frozen Beneath Antarctica? Atlantis?
JENNIFER HALE
Rumors of a hidden city have been floating about for years, as conspiracy theorists and even some scientists claim the freezing continent is actually...
Want to Protect Earth from Aliens? NASA Is Hiring
By Mike Wall
If you've always dreamed of helping keep Earth safe from alien invaders, your ship may have just come in.
NASA is looking to...
7-million-year-old teeth add new layer to human origin story
Maria Gallucci
Ancient tooth fossils found in Europe may represent a new chapter in the human origin story.
The fossils, which date back more than 7...
5,000 Years of Native American Moundbuilding
PHILADELPHIA, PA 2017—The Great Pyramids in Egypt, Stonehenge in England, and the Maya city of Teotihuacan were all built thousands of years ago. Add...
America’s First Immigrants: DNA Links Native Americans, Indigenous Canadians To First Ancient Migration
By Elana Glowatz
DNA proves that Native American and indigenous Canadian groups along the northern Pacific Ocean have been living there for more than...
Artifacts From Ancient Americans Show Advanced Culture
Elana Glowatz
Artifacts left behind by ancient Americans suggest their civilization was much more advanced than experts previously thought.
Some of those artifacts, found at a...
Morocco fossils push back the timeline on human origins
Fossilized remains found in Morocco might belong to our 300,000-year-old ancestors.
The skulls and bones could represent the earliest known fossils of Homo sapiens, the...