Have you heard of these seven ancient disasters in America that changed history? Prepare to have your mind blown.

Two ancient North American structures have collapsed within days of each other as a tribe has warned the 190-million-year-old ...

In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began ...

Evidence of an ancient Indian city—one that rivaled the size of Washington, D.C., at the time—would have mucked up the story line. Even American universities took scant notice of Cahokia and ...

For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover ...

The clay tablets are the first cuneiform tablets from the Middle Bronze Age to be found in the region, according to a Jan. 14 ...

Industrial farming in Brazil and off-road racing in Chile continue to threaten geoglyphs that are so big, they can only be ...

The priceless pages at D.C.’s National Archives tell the story of America’s birth. But did you know that inside the building ...

How did this ancient South Asian tradition seep into the American culture? Yoga’s ancient roots are found in the ancient Hindu text, the Rig Veda, said to be more than 3,000 years old.

The Race Underground is based in part on a book of the same name by author Doug Most. American Experience rode with Most on the original line — just three stops from one end of the Boston Common ...

Sometimes called Urartu, it was a powerful nation of the region around Mount Ararat in 800 B.C. A mound in Turkey has yielded much information about this nation and its widespread influence ...

We can gain more insight on our modern problem by turning to ancient Rome for a lesson on ... It’s true that America has gone through cycles of political violence before: The ’60s and ...