A doorway cut with great precision into the face of a rocky mountain in Peru may be one of the world's greatest mysteries.

Shocking DNA findings from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute in Germany found that these ancient ...

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the Caribbean and Central and Southern Andes. Highlights include pieces from the Inca and Aztec empires and Chinchorro mummies, a funerary technique that's 2,000 years older than the Egyptian method.

James L. Fitzsimmons received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2002. He taught at a number of institutions before coming to Middlebury and has held writing fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks Research ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient world slept only 6.5 hours a night.