State researchers discovered artifacts and 11 Native American graves thought to be over 3,000 years old on N.C. coast.

Poverty Point, a 3,500-year-old earthen mound, is a well-researched UNESCO World Heritage Site, but a pair of studies ...

Archaeology reveals that a millennium ago, North America was home to thriving urban centres as large and sophisticated as ...

New archaeological research uncovers the long-hidden truth behind one of North America's most iconic ancient sites.

Across North America, archaeologists are rewriting what I thought I knew about the continent’s past, uncovering sites that ...

The Pecos River murals are a stunning collection of monumental, multicolored rock paintings in limestone rock shelters across ...

The Philadelphia museum, located on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, has completely rethought the 2,000-sq.-ft ...

According to a Penn Museum press release, the exhibition explores Indigenous perspectives by incorporating first-person ...

A major new study challenges long-standing ideas about who built Poverty Point, one of the Americas’ oldest monuments, 3,500 ...

Johnson is one of eight curators from eight Indigenous communities around the country who collaborated with Penn Museum. They represent the tribes of Delaware, Muscogee Creek, Eastern Band of Cherokee ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...