Drinking from skulls might not be limited to lurid serial killer movies. Archaeologists have exhumed skull cups and skeleton ...

Native American tribal leaders with ancestral ties to the region will conduct a reburial ceremony for ancient human remains found near Dolores on the San Juan National Forest, officials say. Erosion ...

Cleisthenes was the statesman who laid the foundations of democracy in ancient Athens by dividing Attica into ten tribes by location.

From desert carvings to underwater ruins, these ancient structures are so advanced that experts still can’t agree on what ...

Long before Pericles' Golden Age, an aristocrat named Cleisthenes laid the true foundation for Athenian democracy.

Long before Romans and kings, ancient tribes shaped the land and vanished into legend. Their stories, hidden in earth and ...

A new DNA study of living and historical members of the Blackfoot Confederacy in the U.S. and Canada suggests that they share a lineage with people from the last ice age. When you purchase through ...

"If a monument of a different culture was put up at your family cemetery where you buried your loved ones for hundreds of ...

You've probably heard that expression "you are what you eat." There's a lot more truth to it than you may think, due to the 100 trillion microbes that make up your microbiome: a combination of fungi, ...

Gabe Polsky's documentary follows Patrick McCollum, supposedly identified in an ancient prophecy as the person who will bring people together to preserve the Amazon.