Tumaco-Tolita gold figurine: A 2,000-year-old statue with a 'fancy nose ornament' from a vanished South American culture Features By Kristina Killgrove published 24 March 2025 ...

Archaeologists have uncovered over 100 previously unknown structures at a centuries-old archaeological complex in Peru's Río Abiseo National Park. The discovery fundamentally reinterprets the ...

Japanese researchers turned to “experimental archaeology” to study how ancient humans navigated powerful ocean currents and ...

South American tattoos are typically more complex drawings on hands, wrists, forearms, and feet. Cheek tattoos are rarer. In fact, no other ancient tattoo found in the region so far is comparable ...

The tattoos were made with magnetite ink, an iron ore not previously found in any other South American mummy. University of Turin team discovers unique facial tattoos on 800-year-old South ...

What Spurred the South to Join the American Revolution? How a disagreement with a Scottish lord over westward expansion, a cache of gunpowder, and the future of enslaved labor helped kick-start ...

BOSTON (AP) — Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as ...