It’s been dubbed the Adena pipe and is now the official...
Suspicions of cannibalism at the Jamestown Settlement have...
He had a name, not that we will ever know it. He also had...
While the pyramids of Egypt, some dating back to 4,000 B.C...
The Los Angeles, California nonprofit Cante Sica Foundation...
  I always had a thirst, a hunger, for the history of my...
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Researching the Past

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the tomb of an influential early Mayan ruler...
Last spring, the University of California, Berkeley, produced a historically inaccurate and graphically violent play about Ishi, the famous California Indian, which caused some Ame...
Travel back in time--some 13,000 years back to the era of mastodons, mammoths, giant sloths, bison, and saber-toothed cats hunted by men armed only with spears...
Officials are poking holes in a man’s claims that vandals destroyed an archeological site in Alberta, Canada...
What is likely to be the largest delegation of Mohawk Indians ever to assemble in Rome will take place this weekend, October 20–21, for the canonization of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17t...
We’ve been awash in meteorites lately, what with asteroids flying by and meteor showers abounding this month. (Meteorites are what meteors become once they land...
Scientists call him the Kennewick Man, tribal members call him the Ancient One, showing just how differently the two worlds view the more than 9,200-year-old skeleton found on a ba...
Archaeologists in Guatemala believe they’ve discovered the tomb of Lady K’abel, military ruler of the Wak, or “Centipede” kingdom, during the seventh-century...
An 11-year-old Russian boy, following his nose—he smelled something “unpleasant” while walking his dogs, according to news accounts, and it wasn’t what he was scooping up from his ...

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