In May 1562, Diego de Landa, the highest-ranking Catholic authority in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, received word that a large number of idols, along with human bones and deer meat, had been discovered ...

A rock shelter known as Spirit Cave overlooks Nevada’s Lahontan Basin. A burial discovered there held a man whose mummified remains are the oldest known in the world. Genetic testing has established ...

A 13th-century limestone sundial is one of the earliest timekeeping devices discovered in Egypt Recording the passage of time is a fundamental human activity, whether by turning the pages of a ...

Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to ...