While the monumental stone pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica often dominate our understanding of ancient urban centers, the landscape of the Mississippi River Valley holds its own remarkable, though ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the year, according to a recent discovery. This finding ...

Discover the ancient Manteno people of coastal Ecuador, a pre-Columbian society that thrived from 600 A.D. until European contact. In this video, we explore their culture, lifestyle, and the mysteries ...

The Atacama Desert of northern Chile is mostly known as one of the driest places on the planet and for being home to several major astronomical observatories. It was also home to the Atacama people, ...

Pre-Columbian Society at the University Museum (University of Pennsylvania) https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...

The aim of this paper is to investigate five new cases of possible treponematosis in early medieval Denmark. A total of 1018 skeletons from Danish and present day German cemeteries have been examined, ...