Long before there were maps or names for continents, a handful of people stood at the edge of the world. Picture them on a ...

An analysis of bones from ancient people who once lived in Colombia has discovered DNA that does not directly connect them to ...

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Tombs scattered across China, built between the 4,000-year old Xia Dynasty and the modern era, reflect the political and ...

Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherers began building massive earthwork mounds along the Mississippi River at Poverty Point, ...

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It is clear that the sprawling city of Teotihuacan near Mexico City was a major metropolis of the ancient world, but what do ...

Did you know there’s a theory that ancient underground tunnels secretly connect Europe? Archaeologists have found mysterious passageways under places like Scotland, Germany, and Turkey, some dating ...

Reincarnation and afterlife was a tradition among the ancient Greeks. Writers expressed the view that the souls of the dead ...

DNA recovered from 1,000-year-old dried feces indicates that intestinal infections from pinworm or Shingella may have plagued ...

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