Shielded from development and agriculture, many archaeological sites have now become inadvertent safe harbours for plants and ...

Archaeologists have identified hundreds of ancient structures hidden beneath the dense canopy of Ecuador's Andean Chocó ...

The oldest known cremation pyre in Africa is shedding light on the complex funeral rites of ancient hunter-gatherers 9,500 years ago.

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Hammocks helped Europeans survive the tropics during colonization. But this ancient Indigenous innovation has been erased ...

For nearly a century, a strange band of thousands of holes carved into a Peruvian hillside has defied explanation. Stretching for nearly a mile (1.5 km) along the edge of the Pisco Valley, Monte ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --Peru signed a strategic agreement with South Korean defense firm Hyundai Rotem for the future acquisition of tanks and armored vehicles -- a deal that, if finalized, could become South ...

On Wednesday, Nov. 5, University of Massachusetts classics lecturer Joseph Wilson took the students in his course, Technology in the Ancient World, to the glassblowing laboratory of Sally Prasch. The ...

An ancient Pompeii wall at a newly excavated site, where Associate Professor Admir Masic applied compositional analysis (overlayed to right) to understand how ancient Romans made concrete that has ...

Known as the “people of the cloud forest,” the Chachapoya civilization built sophisticated urban centers and ceremonial sites, and this latest find has deepened our knowledge of their architectural ...