Plum Bayou Mounds, Arkansas(Will Newton/Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism) A dozen miles southeast of Little Rock, two large mounds rise from the flat Arkansas River floodplain.

A detail from a Late Classic vase from the Peten region depicts a Maya queen (above right) with red lines painted below her eyes and a female attendant (above left) with a light patch around her ...

Live Science reports that a 4,400-year-old settlement site has been discovered in western Saudi Arabia by a team of ...

NBC News reports that forensic artist Oscar Nilsson has reconstructed the face of Zosia, a woman who was buried with the ...

A Viking Age cemetery that contained more than 100 graves and several boat-shaped mounds known as stone ships has been found ...

According to a report in the Derry Journal, an excavation at the seventeenth-century city walls surrounding the city of Derry ...

Burial of a 10-month-old Neanderthal with red deer jawbone leaning against the pelvis HAIFA, ISRAEL—A study conducted by Ella ...

A spiral temple sits atop a 3,000-year-old burial mound known as Montegrande in northern Peru’s Amazon region.(Courtesy Quirino Olivera Nuñez) The Amazon jungle wasn’t supposed to have been ...

Rectangular burnt house with remains of built installations and vessels for food storage, Svinjarička Čuka, Serbia SVINJARIČKA ČUKA, SERBIA—According to a Newsweek report, traces of an 8,000 ...

New evidence shows that the remote North Atlantic archipelago was settled hundreds of years before the Vikings reached its shores Sheep graze in the Faroe Islands, an archipelago in the North ...