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

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is ...

From giant apes to towering legends, North America’s past may be stranger than we think. Could ancient giants have inspired ...

For years, scientists thought Antarctica was the main source of meltwater that flooded the planet's oceans after the last ice ...

You’ve heard of Mayan cities of gold. You’ve heard of Aztec blood-filled temples. So why haven’t you heard about the sprawling structures of North America’s Cahokia?

From the Greeks and the Romans to the Ottoman empire, the history of Sardis, Turkey, is one of persistent turnover. But its ...

It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You’re hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, ...

New archaeological research challenges long-held assumptions about why ancient hunter-gatherers built the monumental earthworks at Poverty Point in Louisiana some 3,500 years ago. Rather than serving ...

An ancient hornless rhino fossil found in the Canadian Arctic, Epiaceratherium itjilik, shows rhinos once lived much farther ...

Native Americans grew the seasonal orange gourds before corn or beans. Today, Pennsylvania ranks among the nation's top ...

The 10th most visited country in the world is the UK, which had 41.2 million tourists in 2024. After recovering to nearly pre ...

Gov. Patrick Morrisey and West Virginia University President Michael Benson introduced the public to the founding director of ...