From the air it looks like a sea of green. But bounce some...
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...
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Researching the Past

Julia Flynn Siler’s new book, Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure , paints a truer—and more sinister—portrait of how Hawaii w...
The University at Buffalo Graduate Students Association in American Studies will present "Challenging Settler Colonialism," March 23-24 as the 8th Annual Indigenous and American St...
As Japan looks back on the one-year anniversary of the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami that leveled a northern region last March 11, Canada is looking ahead...
Konnie LeMay
March 08, 2012
For Brenda Child, researching Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community (Viking, 2012), a history of Ojibwe women that stretches across four states and...
Editor's note: A new book details the ways in which Ojibwe women kept the cultural flame alive from contact onward...
Scientists say they’ve discovered mankind’s oldest ancestor — Pikaia gracilens ...
Dr. Karl Bates explains how he recreated the T. rex skull to determine bite force. Would you rather get bitten by a Tyrannosaurus rex or sat on by an elephant?...
New information from the full genome of a 5,300-year-old “Iceman” has revealed some interesting facts...
Could art be the key to uncovering the mystery of when humans first came to the Americas?...
ICTMN Staff
February 24, 2012

The Maya are often thought of as one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas.

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