Easter Island's history may have been shaped by a century-long drought, not human destruction, altering its society in ways we never imagined.

Archaeologists have confirmed that Aguada Fénix, the largest and oldest known Maya monument, was designed as a massive cosmogram representing the Maya conception of the universe. New excavations at ...

Historians are occasionally forced to revise their preconceived notions after discovering something hidden in the shadows and ...

The discovery may help to explain a long-running mystery about a mysterious feature found on the outside of the ancient tomb.

One of the coolest pieces of irony about our planet is that the ocean covers most of the surface of the Earth, and yet, the ...