From Blubberhouses to Crackpot and Fryup to Sexhow, North Yorkshire is a festival of funny place names, with many a hamlet observed through fits of giggles inside passing vehicles. But have you ever ...

The expansion of one of the Mediterranean’s strongest powers wasn’t only driven by conquest, but also infrastructure. By borrowing techniques from the Greeks and the Etruscans, Romans engineered ...

A development project on a North Carolina intercoastal waterway was paused when construction crews found bones. A subsequent archaeological dig at the site turned up over 2,000 artifacts, including ...

Native American tribes and ancient Mound Builders in Ohio left no written record, but we can learn about them from what they left behind. Ancient Mound Builders known as Adena, Hopewell and Fort ...

AUSTIN, TEXAS—According to a Live Science report, James Neely of the University of Texas at Austin and his colleagues suggest that country farmers used a 205-foot-long, scorpion-shaped effigy mound in ...

Catherine S. Comeaux and her family spent three summers exploring state, national and provincial parks — from Louisiana to Alaska then Nova Scotia and along the Mississippi River in between. This year ...

Discover what it takes to survive as a pyramid builder in ancient Egypt. Government shutdown: Republicans consider escape hatch as Congress careens toward deadline A weaker dollar has always been part ...

The Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office has announced the full reacquisition of Sugarloaf Mound, the last remaining Native American mound in St. Louis and the city’s oldest known human-made ...

MANBIJ, SYRIA—Greek City Times reports that a resident of Manbij, Syria, notified local authorities of the presence of a large inscribed stone buried near a central city market. An archaeological team ...

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Who built Serpent Mound—and why? While some date it to 1,000 years ago, its precise alignment with the summer solstice sunset suggests deeper cosmic wisdom. Ancient builders may have recognized the ...