The discovery, announced on Friday, offers fresh insight into the beliefs, power structures and burial customs of one of ...

A spectacular 1,400-year-old tomb belonging to the Zapotec civilization has been discovered in Mexico. "This is the most ...

Carved into the desert floor are symbols no one fully understands. Animals, lines, and shapes stretch across miles of barren ...

When Charleston resident Grant Martin found his first shark tooth on a Hilton Head Island beach when he was a kid, he thought ...

Rock art found in Indonesia dates to at least 67,800 years ago, representing the earliest known cave art made by humans.

Crafts like origami, kogin-zashi embroidery and woodblock printing were available to community members as an opportunity to ...

The historical image of the Huei Tzompantli or the bustle of the Tlatelolco market has, with good reason, dominated the ...

A lost ritual chamber sealed in stone may rewrite what we know about Mexico’s ancient cultures, and who vanished from history ...

Across India, communities perform frog weddings, a folk ritual to invoke rainfall during droughts. These ceremonies, deeply ...

Time is running out on the Smithsonian’s seven-year loan of the Key Marco Cat to the Marco Island Historical Museum.

Author Thomas Fellows talks about why he believes that, in retrospect, Frederick Douglass should have gone down in history as ...

The documentary highlights several historical figures who inspired the creation of Indiana Jones. Among them is Hiram Bingham, the American academic who rediscovered Machu Picchu in 1911. Bingham's ...