Siberia's last woolly mammoths, which died out about 10,000 years ago, descended from North American stock, according to new research. But others question the conclusion.
Found near Cancun, Mexico, "Eve of Naharon" may be 13,600 years old—and she's not alone. She and three other skeletons could change how we think the Americas were first populated.
More than 2,000 years older than the oldest Egyptian mummy, the world's earliest known intentionally preserved mummies are on display in Santiago, Chile.
Vast swathes of "pristine" Amazon rain forest may have been sophisticated "garden cities" prior to the arrival of European colonists, anthropologists say.
The rare pre-Inca mummy was masked and entombed with a child sacrifice. Found near high-rises in Lima, the tomb is one of the few known unlooted Wari burials.
A newfound underground labyrinth filled with stone temples and pyramids—some underwater—likely relates to Maya myths of the afterlife, archaeologists say.
The world's oldest intact mummy wore the hides of herd beasts, not wild animals, says a new study that suggests the Iceman lived in a pastoral-agricultural society.
The biggest graveyard ever found in the region has revealed how ancient humans lived and died when the desert was a grassy savanna about 10,000 years ago.
A new British Museum survey of several important archaeological sites in southern Iraq suggests antiquities there are threatened more by neglect, erosion, and military activities than looting.
Giant kangaroo-like beasts and thousand-pound marsupial hippos went extinct on the Australian island of Tasmania more than 40,000 years ago from hunting, not climate change, scientists say.
