State researchers discovered artifacts and 11 Native American graves thought to be over 3,000 years old on N.C. coast.

From St. Augustine to New York, explore America's oldest cities where colonial history, architecture, and modern life ...

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that are older, more complex, and more surprising than the history books ever ...

According to a Penn Museum press release, the exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives by incorporating first-person videos, Native languages, and interactive components such as weaving stations.

The Blackland Prairie of northeast Mississippi is the ancestral home of today’s Chickasaw Nation. They encountered the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto there in 1540, and later sent him and his ...

In Pennsylvania, the foundations of a treasure linked to a robbery committed by the Doan Gang during the Revolutionary War.

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies re-examines its original purpose.

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

Before the California Gold Rush in the late 1840s, there were perhaps 50 native Chinese people in the United States. Just a few decades later, there were more than 100,000, and seemingly every city, ...

An isolated burial in Sudan has revealed the first evidence of an unknown funeral ritual that took place nearly 4,000 years ago in a little-known African kingdom, a new study finds. In the grave, ...

The maximum totality of the total solar eclipse in August 2027 will last 6 minutes and 23 seconds, but you'll need to travel ...