A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” ...

Humans were present in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a new study. Researchers from ...

In late June 2025, an ancient city covering several square miles was discovered beneath Wyoming's Horse Peak mountain. In ...

There’s a place in western North Carolina where the mountains ripple like waves on a blue-green ocean, where clouds cast dramatic shadows across ancient peaks, and where locals sometimes “accidentally ...

A stunning fossil discovery in the United States is forcing scientists to rethink the timeline of dinosaur evolution across North America. These newly uncovered bones suggest dinosaurs may have ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

New study confirms ancient human footprints in America date back 21,000 years, reshaping the history of early human presence.

Scientists have verified Ice Age footprints in White Sands National Park, showing humans lived in North America during the ...

3D scans reveal largest cave art in North America. ... discerned by the naked eye—yet the ancient etchings are being celebrated as one ... of the Earth below and create topographic maps.

Archaeologists have deciphered 255 ancient characters that were ... Mysterious carving with biblical message linked to Jesus' crucifixion found in North America. ... Terrifying map reveals the ...

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...

By the conclusion of the trans-Atlantic slave trade at the end of the 19th century, Europeans had enslaved and transported more than 12.5 million Africans.