DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

Modern biochemical analysis has confirmed what these ancient cultures discovered through observation—fermentation ...

DNA obtained from the remains of people who inhabited Pueblo Bonito in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon a millennium ago is helping ...

The Picuris Pueblo initiated the research to show their ties to Chaco Canyon, the center of an Ancestral Pueblo regional ...

Changing all that, the researchers announce the discovery of two “burin spalls” – or stone flakes – from a site called Actun Uayazba Kab in Belize. Also known as Handprint Cave, Actun Uayazba Kab ...

Across the world, ancient ruins like the Pyramids of Giza and Stonehenge were built with massive stones — yet how they were ...

An ancient woman’s recently discovered, richly adorned gravesite is helping archeologists better understand the complex ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

Scientists have discovered a new type of immune defense in E. coli bacteria that turns viral infection machinery against the ...

The first Quorn burger, dating back to 1981, and the world's first beef steak cultivated outside a cow are among 100 objects ...