Ancient cities and enduring Indigenous traditions offer hands-on ways to experience this country’s rich culture and history.

The Late Classic period saw the pinnacle of ancient Maya civilization, with a population that exceeded 10 million people.

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

A new study provides a clearer timeline for one of the most significant prehistoric sites worldwide for the study of human evolution. By integrating three advanced dating techniques, researchers have ...

A new study from Bar-Ilan University is shedding light on a long-overlooked social group in archaeology: the elderly. While research on women and children has flourished in recent decades, older ...

A small town on the coast of Cyprus was destroyed in an earthquake in the early 4th century. Archaeologists beginning in the 1930’s started to excavate the town of Kourion but two of them died from ...

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The finding, along with the discovery of a 500,000-year-old hammer made of bone, indicates that our human ancestors were making tools even earlier than archaeologists thought. By Franz Lidz Early ...

The president of Mexico called the discovery of a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in Oaxaca the "most significant archaeological discovery in a decade." When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...