Instead, the geoscientist said, “this is more of the history of our nation’s past and our colonial relationship with mother ...

Even more powerful than the atlatl is the bow and arrow, though ancient archery equipment made of perishable materials rarely survives. An exception is the bow, bowstring, quiver, and arrows found ...

Maritime archaeologists hoisted the heavy artifacts, made of a special type of limestone, from 23 feet below the surface of the English Channel Researchers have genetically tested the bones and ...

yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Icelandic sagas tell how the ...

Norse navigators who stopped on the islands eventually made their way to Iceland, Greenland, and beyond, to North America. Despite the central role that the Faroes played in the history of Viking ...

Accessibly written and abundantly illustrated, this book will be enjoyed by students of archaeology, anthropology and art history. "Karen Bruhns has written a stimulating and wide-ranging account of ...

Colonial Williamsburg is offering a chance to dig into history with archaeologists from across Virginia on Nov. 16 at its ...

I kept saying to both sides, ‘If you would work together, you could bring the ancient world alive.’” When Koloski-Ostrow applied for a job at Brandeis in 1985, her conviction that archaeology ...

Archaeologists have found thousands of Maya structures and a lost city they named Valeriana in Mexico by using laser mapping ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

The remains were discovered during excavations in 1938. Now, researchers have learned new information about his identity by analyzing DNA from his tooth Cool Finds While most wooden artifacts ...