Pottery sherds, animal bones and pieces of clay tobacco pipes weren’t what they were expecting to find, but it’s what a team of archaeologists contracted by the Federal Emergency M...

[Editor’s Note: Often passed, seldom visited by outsiders, British Columbia’s Central Coast is home to the continent’s longest-settled places and most enduring peoples...

November 12 marked the end of a years-long dispute when Yale University returned the last of thousands of Machu Picchu artifacts to Peru...

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...

Indigenous individuals and nations are faced with choices about identity, change and cultural continuity...

UPDATED OCTOBER 4, 2:45 P.M: New information added from the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde...

Dennis Griffin, with Oregon’s State Historic Preservation Office, has been combing the hillsides of Alaskan tundra looking for signs of life. He’s been exploring Hall and St...

Long thought to be a beverage reserved for the ruling class and priests, archaeologists from the National Institute of Anthropology and History say chocolate could have been used f...

The remains of a young woman were found surrounded by 1,789 human bones in Mexico City’s Templo Mayor—a find that is the first of its kind in the Aztec culture according to researc...

The recent discovery of a new Maya temple in Guatemala has uncovered a possible connection between the king and the sun god...