The chance rediscovery of the ancient Chinese Sanxingdui civilization is legendary in and of itself. In 1929, an unsuspecting ...

Thanks to Morning Brew for sponsoring today’s video. Scientists have used a bacteria that commonly infects us to track how ancient humans spread to the Americas from Siberia. And other scientists have ...

Archaeologists have long suspected that climate can make or break a civilization, but the emerging picture of past ...

Some common foods that we have in our pantries can be traced back to ancient times. Take a look at the deep history of our ...

After the Guadalupe event, Native people uninterested in Christ suddenly flocked by the millions to be baptized. Our Lady of Guadalupe bridged an ocean, uniting Europeans and Indigenous Americans. How ...

In the Ecuadorian Andes, young Otavalo Indigenous people are using anime to inspire pride in their culture and language ...

Archaeologists often seek to understand ancient cultures by studying images left behind on rock faces. While these images ...

For a long time, archaeologists believed that large buildings required large bosses. The idea was simple: only societies with strong hierarchies (kings, priests, and planners) could organize massive ...

A new study published in Nature reveals that a distinct group of early humans lived in this region for at least 8,000 years, ...

That it was the Jewish people’s sacred texts—and ethical monotheism itself—that inspired Western civilization is lost on them ...

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