Plum Bayou Mounds, Arkansas(Will Newton/Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage and Tourism) A dozen miles southeast of Little Rock, two large mounds rise from the flat Arkansas River floodplain. These ...

Dehradun: The colossal debris left behind by the Aug 5 flash flood that tore through Dharali has become one of the Himalayas' ...

The Passy-style tombs are a dramatic departure from earlier Neolithic burials not just in terms of their scale, but in what ...

In the seasonally flooded plains of Bolivia, a buried story of the Amazon has just come into focus, revealing a landscape ...

A new study maps dozens of megalithic tombs in Spain, revealing burial mounds and a fortified Copper Age settlement.

Across Louisiana, long earthen ridges and conical hills rise from flat ground, some tucked behind campus buildings, others ...

Located about 85 miles southeast of Atlanta, this charming city offers an intoxicating blend of historical richness, musical legacy, culinary delights, and modern conveniences without the ...

Hunter-gatherers at Poverty Point may have built its massive earthworks not under the command of chiefs, but as part of a ...

University College of London archaeologist Miljana Radivojevic and her colleagues recently mapped the site with drones and geophysical surveys (like ground-penetrating radar, for example), tracing the ...

Ancient wetland earthworks in Bolivia reveal sustainable Indigenous land management that continues to inspire modern conservation. In Bolivia’s hidden tectonic lakes, researchers uncovered vast ...

New evidence suggests Poverty Point’s monumental mounds were created not by a ruling elite, but by egalitarian groups drawn together by shared ritual purpose. Some 3,500 years ago, hunter-gatherer ...