Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

In the Guerrero mountains of southern Mexico, cave guide Adrián Beltrán Dimas and Russian speleologist Yekaterina Katiya Pavlova discovered a hidden room in Tlayócoc cave. They found centuries-old ...

Deep inside a labyrinthine cave in southwestern France, ancient humans who lived around 30,000 years ago carved horses, ...

A fascinating new study suggests that ancient rock art in South Africa may depict a now-extinct species. According to research published in September 2024, the mysterious tusked animal in the artwork ...

Only one of the pyramids at the site was damaged, but personnel from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History ...

Amid the Second World War, four young boys unearthed a Paleolithic masterpiece when they stumbled upon a cave in southwest ...

The existence of ancient cave paintings in Brazil have been revealed for the first time - two years after they were ...

Ancient cave paintings have been discovered in Rio de Janeiro's Itatiaia National Park. Preliminary investigations suggest ...

A new study unveils the potential reason children participated in creating prehistoric cave art. In prehistoric societies, ...

Long before Spanish missionaries arrived, the Santa Barbara coast was home to one of North America’s most complex indigenous civilizations: the Chumash.

The altar reveals the presence of powerful rulers from Teotihuacan who were there at a time when a coup ousted Tikal’s Maya ...

Arts education enhances academic success, creativity, empathy, and inclusion—making it a vital, not optional, part of every ...