Wisconsin Historical Society researchers have uncovered 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, some of which are thousands of ...

Explore how ancient accounting systems from Sumeria to Greece tracked trade, taxes, and resources, shaping early economies ...

One of history's biggest questions is: "How does an entire civilization disappear?" One can comprehend how an object or even a city is lost, buried, or destroyed, but an entire group or nation of ...

University of Houston archeologist Diane Chase is pictured in the tomb of Te K’ab Chaak, the first ruler of the ancient civilization of Caracol in Belize. Fifty years after they were married – and ...

Yet the very system that made Angkor great eventually contributed to its downfall. Researchers determined that a period of ...

Teeth from an elderly man who lived around the time that the earliest pyramids were built have yielded the first full human genome sequence from ancient Egypt. The remains are 4,800 to 4,500 years old ...

The Milwaukee Public Museum has scheduled the first of five "Greatest Hits" exhibit celebrations Saturday, Jan. 10 as part of its final year before moving to a new building.The Ancient ...