The future health of Natives may lie in the scatological remains of the past—a vanguard study of ancient excrement has offered fresh new ways of thinking about the prevalence of di...

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...

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The Madison County town of Smithfield, New York was home to the Oneida Indian Nation from about 1550 to 1575, and a recent Youth Work Learn Program brought students back to the Vai...

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

Scientists have found the remains of an impressive dam in the ancient Mayan city of Tikal, in Guatemala...

As more details emerge about the ancient city dubbed Mantle, near Toronto, Ontario, it is becoming clear that this is one of the major archaeological discoveries ever made in North...

It’s usually painful to dig up the past. But for some Brigham Young University students, unearthing the past has been downright thrilling...

We’ve all heard the prevailing theory of how American Indians came to North America...